THE OFFICIAL AMSTRAD CPC MAGAZINE
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GET EVEN
HINTS, TIPS, MAPS AND POKES
COMPETITION
GHOSTBUSTER GOODIES
SPRITES AUVE AND GENERAL
LEDGER 6128 REVIEWED AND
OUR FRACTAL FINALE
THE REGULARS
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LETTERS 6
Your magazine needs you and your
comments. Put pen to paper to get it off
your chest.
NEWS 10
A look inside the latest CPC events.
COMPETITION 12
Win, and amazo your friends with
Ghost busters gear.
COMBAT ZONE 16
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MICROSCOPE 28
Trevor Cummings gets technical once
again.
GAMEPLAN 31
We bring you expert opinions of Ghouls
J n Ghosts, Dynamite Dux and After the
War. to name but three.
HINTS AND TIPS 3!
tn the middle of this month's Gameplar
we have a seasonal delight for you
your chance to be the best at the
loading games of the year with our
mvaluabie guide to cheating, including a
Hairy Hacker bonanza poke session.
AUNTIE JOHN 41
Another machine code frenzy with Johr
Kennedy,
COMMS _ 8
Gordon Bates teaches you to
communicate to accumulate with
another instalment of networks for
beginners.
David Dam is unable to provide his
Applications Advice column this montt
due fo illness. We wish him a speedy
recovery and hope to have an extra
large advice column in next month s
issue.
Heavens above' m package mat
enables you to generate your own
Sprites? We investigate.
We judge General Ledger 6128 from
SD Microsystems.
FRACTALS 60
The final chapter of our three part fractal
series.
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ACU: Each 10-liner is tested on a
Let’s split
I was wondering if it is possible to split
the screen into two modes at the same
time on the CPC6128.
if it is so, can you please tell me
how?
In the game Into the eagle's nest,
the screen is in mode 1 and 0 together,
Shan Sa ether,
18 Skoghmd veien,
N-1990 Soerum.
ACL': Splitting the screen requires
a little knowledge of machine
code. The technique used is to
count the raster scans and when
they are in the desired position
switch modes. If Auntie John is
reading this he may like to take
this a little further in his next
column,
Fractal fun
Seeing your article on fractal land¬
scapes in the November issue
prompts me to suggest that anyone
who found it interesting might also be
interested in Fractal Report \ a news¬
letter dealing exclusively with the
subject of fractals and mathematical
chaos. This is published six times a
year by Reeves Telecommunications
Laboratories Ltd., WestTowan House,
Forth to wan t Cornwall TR4 SAX.
RJ F Stewart,
Waterloo,
Liverpool .
Not happy
I own a CPC 6128 and buy all my
games software on disc, mainly for fast
loading reasons. It seems to me that
the vast majority of information for
pokes, in your ACU magazine column,
is for tapes and not discs. Why is this?
Is it not easy or possible to 'poke' discs
direct?
As a disc user is it possible for me,
and others like me, to make use of the
pokes for tape' which saturate your
ACU columns? A potential but frus¬
trated hacker.
All Garnett ,
Oldham ,
Lancashire,
ACU: Old Hairy receives his pokes
from the readership so if you des¬
ire more disc bused pokes send
some in and start a new trend.
Frustrated
Generally I think your magazine is
very good but! 1 am not happy with the
ten 10 liners. I joined the user club in
April 1989 the only one that has
worked for me so far was Meteor
Storm by David Hall.
Dean Stilwell
South fields*
London .
464 and a 6128 and a listing pro¬
duced from the working program
which is then photographed and
used as artwork. Using this pro¬
cedure all listings should work
and be free of mistakes.
What robot?
1 am currently in my second year of
GCSE courses. For technology 1 must
make a useful electronic circuit, for
mv project. Because I have got an
Am s trad CPC computer, I have
decided to build a simple robot of
some sort and link it to my Amstrad
CPC computer, or a BBC *B model at
school At present I have few ideas
and plans for a robot. If you could help,
by sending some plans and ideas for
robots or other computer controlled
devices, I would be very grateful.
Peter Minnikm,
East Boldon,
Tyne & Wear.
ACU: If you look in the Maplin
catalogue you will see a few
robotics hooks. Some of these give
full construction techniques and
should be right up your street.
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Amstrad User January 1990
Easy, please
My parents have just bought me an
Amstrad and I have been looking for a
magazine for the computer for quite
some time. After buying your maga¬
zine I was very impressed by the
cheap rate computer software, but for
people that have only been with com¬
puters for a little time the words were
hard to understand. Do you think you
could please in future make it a bit
easier to understand as this would be
appreciated by myself and many
others.
NeH Markwell,
Ipswich ,
ACU: What you really need is a
beginners column for I think it
unwise to tempt the wrath of the
readers who are into the heavy
side of the CPC*
Cough up
Firstly, 1 would like to say how brilliant
your mag is. Before I subscribed, i
bought a copy of Amstrad Action,
Although it was bigger than your
magazine and had a cassette on the
cover, it didn’t compare with your
mag. ACU has that certain quality that
AA doesn't have.
Secondly, I would tike to see cover
mounted cassettes on the cover of
your mag. I sometimes go into the
newsagents and see all the Spectrum
mags such as Crush and Sinclair User
with big, beefy cassettes on the covers
with at least one full game and loads of
demos. Even AA has the occasional
cassette. Why not you? 1 think that
this is the only element missing from a
cool magazine,
Matthew Nor he,
Turriff,
Aberdeenshire ,
ACU: We are looking into the
possibility of producing such a
cassette in the near future* We
hope you all like the fab free
poster last month*
Lock it up
I am writing to you to see if you could
help me with my GCSE Design and
Realisation (CDT) course work. I am
planning to make a security lock that
will fix my computer to my computer
table.
I hope you can give me some in¬
formation on any security locks like 1
mentioned above which you know T
about-
Glenn Richardson,
Eastleigh,
ACU: The PC Show would have
been an ideal place to see such
devices as the software houses
attempted to keep their machines
intact in the crush, alternatively
you can check out this month’s
news fora likely looking device.
Clever clogs
I am 12 years old and have an Amstrad
CPC 464. One of my games is ‘Beyond
the Ice Palace', In your October issue
you reviewed 'Story So Far - Vol 2\
According to the reviewer ‘Beyond
the Ice Palace' had 3 different
weapons. It actually has 4,
I sin Gibson P
Glasgow,
ACU: We will immediately take
that fourth weapon and show the
reviewer the error of his ways*
In control
I would like to know if there is any way
of inserting a program into the com¬
puter, so when the machine is
switched on, it asks you to input the
code and if you fail to type in the
corresponding code for the second
time, the program will not let you use
the computer.
Also if it is possible to put this
program in the RAM, 1 would like to
know 7 if there is a way for being able to
switch on/off this program, so that I
can control the lime that children play
games,
Babak Sufi,
MarbeUa,
Spain,
ACU: The program is feasible but
placing it in RAM would mean it
would be lost every 7 time the ma¬
chine was turned off and it could
easily be overwritten by other pro¬
grams. A far simpler solution
would be to remove the fuse from
the plug or hide alt the joysticks*
Don’t go
1 have owned an Amstrad CPC 6128
now for almost 3 years. This is my
third computer, the first being the
ZX81 followed by the Texas 99/4A,
then of course the Amstrad. It appears
to me that the CPC range of com¬
puters are no longer in production* If
this is correct, how long before any
back up, and in fact your very excel¬
lent mag, cease to exist as happened
for my previous two machines.
J Walton,
Manchester,
ACU: The CPC is mast certainly
still in production and will remain
popular for as long as people like
yourself support it. If you continue
to buy ACU we will continue to
produce it. That’s about it really*
Testing time
In “Typing Test* by Gillian Freeman,
the algorithm in line 40 is rather hard
on the typist. If the passage is typed
perfectly, except that either an extra
letter is typed or one omitted at the
beginning, then every letter is judged
to be a mistake! Try again Gillian.
In “Temperature” by Daniel Tank-
owski (Jankowski?), in line 50, that
part of the equation t-273.15 requires
to be enclosed between brackets.
Cyril Hartley,
Irby , WirraL
Less trivia
I am a pensioner and I bought a 6128 a
few months ago to keep my mind
occupied. I have been reading your
magazine, among others, ever since*
There does not seem to be a maga¬
zine which deals with the serious side
of computing at a level which can be
understood by beginners such as my¬
self.
Arthur Fcwty,
Birkenhead.
ACU: There are plans to start
introducing increasingly varied
computer issues, reviews, round
ups and features, perhaps at the
expense of some of the more triv¬
ial elements of the magazine.
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More joy
just when you think you are happy
with a joystick, another more ad¬
vanced, ultra-sensitive, multi-micros-
witched model appears in the shops.
This month it is the availability of the
Delta 2000 joystick that catches the
eye.
Looking like a mouse with a screw¬
driver in its back, the unusually-
shaped Delta Joystick offers the user a
smooth, accurate action, two fire but¬
tons and an autofire option. Priced at
£9.95 this little beauty seems an ideal
Christmas gift for game freaks.
Stereotypes
in software
under attack
A fight against stereotypes in com¬
puter software has emerged in the
form of OASIS. The National Organi¬
sation Against Sexism in Software
celebrated its first birthday in October
and has established itself as a name in
software pressure groups.
Campaigning against sexism in both
advertising and computer games, OA¬
SIS attempts to increase awareness of
the sometimes blatant stereotyping of
men and women. The task it seems is a
considerable one, especially for a
small organisation. Sandra Vogel, the
founder of OASIS runs the ship single-
handed but embraces applications for
membership which costs £3.
Members will receive six magazines
a year including lists of recommended
software, a comprehensive list of
organisations within the computing
arena and a list, of useful publications
such as Amstrad Computer User.
With most of today's software writ¬
ten in the United States, the chances
of OASIS nipping the sexist program¬
mers in the bud are slim . With more
members climbing aboard however,
OASIS could make serious in-roads on
the (rollicking fiends of software pu¬
blishers by attacking the UK software
houses and distributors. Sandra Vogel
has the determination: “The first year
was a test bed. It has proved that there
is a need for OASIS in the computer
industry. We are here to stay and our
next, year will see us move up a gear.
We have thrown down the gauntlet,
who will take it up?’'
Contact Sandra Vogel at: 3 Alden
Court, Stanley Road, Wimbledon, Lon¬
don SW19 3RD.
At the edge
For those who like to go to the edge
and further there is Darius + T another
alien experience blit with 28 levels of
land and sea crawling creatures. As
the player represents humanity, the
Aliens' hatred is centered on you and
only you can stop the rot and put- paid
to the over-sized, ferocious aliens. Let
us hope it is not. too predictable.
Complete control with the Delta 2000.
DTP delight
SD Microsystems has released Page
Publisher, an affordable DTP package
for the I28K Amstrad CPC. As an
icon/menu driven package, it can
handle both text and graphics layout
from a single program .
There are three built-in fonts plus a
font editor for the text with a number
of editing options including margins,
column markers, auto word-wrap,
normal or reverse video and multiple
columns. The graphics option offers a
choice of ten pens and 50 brush
patterns with an adequate option of
image controls.
The Preview Page selection allows
you to preview vour work and enable
you to judge positioning more accu¬
rately, This is just one of the utilities
provided. Filing commands and cer¬
tain printer options are also available.
Page Publisher is priced at £19.95 if
ordered before February 1 and is
available from SD Microsystems on
0462 675106,
Under attack
Continuing on the theme of computer
organisations, The Computer Users
Forum has released news of its moni¬
toring of virus and hacker hypes over
the past two years. The CUF empha¬
sises its independence from software
and hardware manufacturers but
boasts a membership of about 4,000
individual and corporate members.
Concentrating on the misuse of
computers, the CUF has been
responsible for warning the public of
the recent virus attacks and the
dangerous significance of hacking.
The chairman of the CUF. S* Parvez
Syed, claims that this present hype
(13th of never global virus) will end in
January 1990 for at least a few mon¬
ths. Contact the CUP' on 01-689 3147.
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Amstrad User January 1930
Two tempting
tomes from
Titan
With winter upon us, perhaps it is time
to stay in bed with a cup of cocoa and
curl up with one of the publications on
offer from Titan Books. Thieves'
World book 7 has reached the shelves
under the guise of The Dead Of
Winter. Do not however, let the title
scare you into hiding. The book conti¬
nues the fantasy theme of the series
with a world called Sanctuary, where
the dead are beginning to outnumber
the living. With a serious population
problem and the threat of the Rankan
Empire, it seems the scene is set for a
yam that will spin you into a worm.
The second publication involves
more deeply subconscious goings-on
with the third in the series of Wild
Cards, jokers Wild is set 40 years on
from the Wild Card virus that helped
shape the world after World War II
with superpowered Aces and disfig¬
ured Jokers. The Wild Cards Day
celebrations in Manhattan are inter¬
rupted by 24 hours of death and
destruction with both the Aces and
jokers battling it out for a full hand.
Priced at £3.99 and £3.95 respect¬
ively, the books are available from
most leading book stores*
Making the connection with Datalink.
Linking up
Verran Electronics has released the
Verran AC Datalink which provides
Amstrad users a freedom to connect
any type of computer of peripheral via
an existing electrical circuit. Priced at
£175 each, the AC Datalinks allow
several PCs to be linked to a peri¬
pheral such as a modem, without the
expense of dedicated cabling.
Ray Johnson, the chairman for Ver¬
ran Electronics claims that "the AC
Datalink will be the computer product
of the '90s,” It is a tall claim although
many companies have tried to market
high quality, through-the-ma ins con¬
nections in the past and failed. It
remains to be seen how the Verran
offering will develop.
Congratulations
Congratulations to Mr Martin Roberts
who lias won Focus Magazines' PC
Show prize draw for the Amstrad
PC2086 HD CD. Mr Roberts is an IT
support officer for ILEA at County
Hall and will undoubtedly put the
Sugar machine to good use.
Safety first
Homeguard UK has released an 'Audio
and Video' anti-theft alarm for those
with a nervous disposition. The com¬
pact security unit is designed to pro¬
tect appliances that are permanently
connected to the mains, which is
incidentally a fire hazard.
Based on an electromagnetic cur¬
rent sensing strip, the unit detects the
absence of electrical power in the
event of the appliance being removed
from its point of rest. The ensuing
result is a loud, piercing alarm that
sounds for 45 seconds.
Priced at £14.95 the unit is a safe
bet for security buffs.
INDIANA JONES COMPETITION
WINNER
The winner of the Indiana Jones hat
and whip is Isobel Why from Elstree,
in Hertfordshire. Congratulations
Isobel and good luck with the crus¬
ades, Twenty-five runners-up will rec¬
eive T-shirts and games.
Amstrad User January 1990
Page 1
Y ou have to be in it
to win it - never
more so than this
month when the first ten
correct answers to the
questions below will rec¬
eive a Ghostbusters
T-shirt that glows in the
dark, a huge Ghostbusters
poster and five super stick¬
ers. These prizes are the
generous contribution of
those guys and gals down
at Activision - whose
Ghostbusters II game is re¬
viewed in ACU next
month. Anything else? Oh
yes, those questions:
| Who composed the
original Ghostbusters
theme tune?
| Which rappers had a
minor hit with a song from
the second movie?
fl In which town are
both films set?
The editor’s decision is final,
Entries to:
A Ghost of a Chance
ACU t Avralite Publications,
Greencoat House,
Francis Street,
London SW1P IDG,
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Amstrad User January 1990
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COMBAT ZONE
John Cook goes
undercover to bring
you news of
impending coin-op
releases.
Y ou wouldn’t think that the
autumn/winter season is a parti¬
cularly interesting time in the
Combat Zone - seaside resorts have
packed up until new Easter, with
many arcades keeping limited
opening hours until then. But not so -
as it's the time of year when the trade
has a bit of a rest from keeping the
punters happy (or keeping the pun¬
ters from destroying the kit, more
often) and starts to think about what
to buy for next year.
How? By going to various trade
shows, that's how, and we managed to
sneak in to the major Autumn show -
the Associated Leisure Preview - last
week. And there were quite a few
surprises in store, as you might ex¬
pect.
For a start - a name new to video
games, although one that has been
producing pinball games for many
years now - Gottlieb Inc. Gottlieb
did have a new pinball table, on
display of course - it’s called
Bonebusters and isn’t at all bad,
but the shock was a new video
from them called Extermina¬
tor. Not only is it a surprise to see
this company take such a change
in direction, but the game itself!
We are talking about a game that
is seriously different in both style
and content to the majority of
games around right now.
For a start, the very look of the
thing. It looks like the majority of the
sprites haven’t simply been drawn
from scratch - they've been generated
for digitised images of real things - the
same with most of the backgrounds.
This gives the game a look and feel
quite unlike anything that has gone
before.
The subject matter of the bash -
you (or you plus a friend) are an
Exterminator, trying to rid the street,
house by house, room by room, of
pests. Like toy tanks that fire back at
you, for instance. And what do you
control on screen? A disembodied
hand which can make a fist and stamp
enemies to bits, grab the flying ones
out of the air, or if you have it to the far
right or left of the screen, point and
lire a stream of green laser fire.
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Amstrad User January 1990
We are talking seriously surreal
here, played up against a domestic
backdrop, with enemies coming out of
the screen at you. At this point, those
of us with a weaker grip on reality
might well run gibbering from the
machine! Difficult to say whether this
game is going to be successful, but it's
nice to see that at least some people in
the business aren’t scared of taking
the odd risk - 'cos boy, this is an odd
risk!
Cow-puchka!!! Sound familiar? OK
then - what's green* mutant, very
good at martial arts and is only at the
very beginning of a ISO year life span?
A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle , what
else? You might have seen the action
packed cartoon on telly from time to
time, well now it's arrived on the video
scene in a four player extravaganza
from Konami that is bound to be very
popular.
With nine big levels, ranging from
the inside of an apartment building to
the den of the chief baddie - who is
holding a buddy prisoner - the four
guys (or should that be amphibians)
Rapheal, Leonardo, Donatello, Mi-
chaelangelo not forgetting that w r on-
derful ice cream Cometto (mint choc-
chip my favourite!) boldly go forward,
sideways, up and down doing what
Mutant Ninja Turtles do best * * * tak¬
ing out loadsa baddies*
Sure, at the end of the day it's just
another beat ’em up and heaven
knows there's far too many of these
around - but the fun element of this
game is the licence. The cartoon is a
Exterminate, exterminate.
lorra laffs, so it’s quite entertaining to
take your favourite character out of it
and give the bad guys some stick -
well. Bo Staff actually, or Sai, Katana
or even Nunchakus, depending on
your choice of Turtle.
And to my knowledge, it's the first
four player beat ’em up too - not
counting the wildly unsuccessful
wrestling game, Final Round. Recom¬
mended for lightweight enjoyment.
Bust those Beasts.
The big game of the show though,
for my money at any rate, had to be
the follow-up to Chase HQ from Taito,
called (with an astonishing degree of
imagination, considering) Special
Criminal Investigations. And believe
me, if you liked the original, you are
going to go for SCI in a big, big w r ay.
The format of the game has been
^ KONAMI ^
HEROES IN A HALF-SHELL
In the Line of Fire.
kept very similar, with you taking the
part of some cool dude, baggy suited,
mirror sunglassed cop and his side-
kick, driving a chase for the cops. Like
Chase HQ, you are given jobs and have
to drive as fast as you can to catch up
with the criminal in question, then
batter him off the road .
Exactly the same thing happens
The chase is on.
COMBAT ZONE
here - the only difference being a lire
button on the steering wheel, where
you would normally expect the horn
to be. Press it and - hey guy - a
gunsight appears on the screen and
with your character leaning out of the
motor in a very acrobatic way, you
start taking pot shots at the bad guys!
Teenage Mutant wtiat?
If you have ever had the odd fantasy
about appearing in Miami Vice,
Special Criminal Investigations brings
it that, much closer. Don’t expect
anything much new’ from SCI, but it
has just enough more to ensure it'll be
just as big as Chase HQ was in the
arcades.
Finally, just when you thought it
w ? as safe to flip the safety catch on the
Uzi to 'On’ - we get some more
electronic shooting gallery games. Or
should that be electronic firing
squads!
SNK, having made a substantial
killing (poops!) with Mechanised At¬
tack have now T come up with Beast
Busters , a three player (yes, three!)
shoot ’em down, with a theme of the
supernatural and slimy - not unlike
that of the infamous bad taste game,
SpiaUerhotise. Yes, three gun toting
maniacs at one time can now blast
their way through levels of slime drip¬
ping humanoids and assorted weird
looking stuff. Got to be a winner. And
then big guys Sega have finally
entered the fray - showing off a
prototype of Line of Fire, a technically
impressive taut still untimely tedious
killing zone. But at least they’ve got
the good commercial sense to pander
to the whims of the most gratuitous
funsters. In this one there’s unlimited
ammunition.
That’s it for now - until next month,
but remember. I know it's Christmas -
but none of this festive goodwill to all
aliens stuff, OK? i mean, you and your
pocketful of lOps are all that stand
between us and global annihilation by
awful green things. Alright???!!!!
Amstrad User January 1930
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G. bneher Hoi Shots
Gazza's Super Soccer
Gold Silver Bronze
Kenny Dalglish
Kick Off
Krypton Factor
Liverpool
MalCh Day 2
Micropro&e 5oCC*r
Monopoly
Passing. Shot
Peter Beardsley
Quarter Bach
Scrabble
Scruples
Sporting Triangles
Treble Champions
Trivia
Triv, Pursuit New Bag,
Triv. Purauil Genus
Triv. Puisuil Young
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5.95 6.70
7.45
5.96
3.70 11J95
6.95 10.95
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7.45 10,65
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7.45 10.95
7.40 10.95
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5.95 9.70
7.45 10.65
6.70 10.95
10.95 14.95
7.45 10.95
7.45 10,95
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7.45 10.95
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7.45 10.45
5.20
10.95 14.95
10,90 14.95
10.96 14.95
7.45 10.95
ARCADE
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4 X 4 Off Road Racing
Aclion Fighler
After Burner
Arcade Muscle
A.F.R
Barbarian 2
Bal man Caped crus.
Batman The Movie
Btoodwych
Cabal
Christmas Collection
Continental Circus
Crazy Cera 2
Dark Century
Oarh Force
Darh Fusion
Dominator
Dou b e Dragon
Dragon Ninja
Dragon Spirit
Eliminaior
Fl5 Stride Eagle
Forgotten WOftoi
F. Bruno's &g Bom
Garni hi Wing
In Crowd
Indian Jones
lyanhoe
Knight Fore*
Konami Arcade Coll
Laser Squaa
Licence Ta Kill
Marauder
Netherworids
New Zeeland Story
Obi iterator
Operalion Wolf
Paclanb
Pacmania
Purple Saturn Day
Rainbow ks.1i.nda
HambO 3
Hally Cross
Rea« GhPSl busters
Red Heat
Renegade 3
Rick Dangerous
Roboe-op
Rock Star
Running Man
Run The Gauntlet
Shinobl
SHk Worm
Sfcweek
Special AcUon
Star Wars Trilogy
Slornn Lord
Slary So Far vOJ. 4
SI rider
Superman
Taito Coin Op, Hits
The Urtlouchables
Thunderbiids
Thunder Blade
Time Scanner
Vi-g ilante
Winners
Xenon
XybfflS
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7.45 10.95
7.45 10-90
7.40 10.96
9.70 13.45
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Batman (30)
Big Fd*t
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Cybernold
D. Thompson Decaln
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Endure Racer
Flintslones
Foolbail Manager
Foolballer of the Year
Gauntlet
Gaurtllel 2
Ghosts N Goblins
Green Berel
Leaderboard
Knight Gamea
Maslera of Ihe Universe
Match Poinl
Mig 29
Mini Offree
Monle Carlo Casino
Monty On The Run
Moto Cross Simulator
Nick Faldo
Ninja Command
Nmja ■Massacre
Operation Gunship
Paper Boy
Power Boat Simulator
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A View to & Kill
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Dynamile Den
Formula t Grand Prix
G. Gooch Match Cricket
Bun Goal
Joe Blade 2
Master Chess
Mind Trap
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Sigma 7
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SNOW
BY M, WOOD
'This demo is not particularly
interesting to watch, but is
' quite fascinating in concept. It
actually mimics a television set
which is badly in need of a
retune. The screen changes
from being fuzzy to black, then
scrolls and generally looks quite
fascinating - it’s as though
there's a lot of interference.
10 ’Mark Wood 1989, Broken T.V,Screen Clear for 2min [FI]
20 MODE 0:INK 0,0:PAPER 0:BORDER 0 [99]
30 FOR t=0 TO 15:INK t.0:NEXT t [A4]
40 FOR i=&C000 TO &C000+&3FFF:POKE i,RND*255:NEXT i [DE]
50 SPEED INK 1,1 [3C]
60 FOR y = 0 TO I 5:INK y,RND*27,RND*27:NEXT’y [27]
70 OUT &BD00,INT(RND*255} [7A]
80 BORDER INT(RND*27),INT(RND*27) [71]
90 OUT &BC00,INT{RND*255) [72]
100 GOTO 70 [B8]
GAMBLER BY D, HALL
Far be it for us here at ACU to
discourage the art of the harm¬
less flutter, so here is something
that D. Hall prepared before the
show. If you have a passion for
laying money on lame animals,
try this one. A five robot race
where the stakes are high, and
the competitors lethargic.
10 INK 0.0:MODE 0:PAPER 0:CL5:BORDER l;k=2:INK 5,15:FOR t=l TO 24 STEP 4 :PEN k;k
= k*l:FOR s=l TO 19 t LOCATE g,t;PRINT CHR$(196) :NEXT:N [2C]
EXT r PAPER 1 2 : PEN 9 f FOR 1=1 TO 2 1 : LOCATE 20,1: PR I NT CHRS ( 233 ) : NEXT: PAPER 0:a$ = ,"*
Future Gambler *"rc=lrLOCATE 1,22:^0=300 [2C]
20 n-10000:FOR m=l TO 3:READ pSrFOR t=l TO LEN(pS) STEP 2rPOKE n ,VAL("A"+MID ${ pS
,t,2));n=n+l:NEXT:NEXT:INK 14,26,15:INK 15,6,15:SPEE [93]
D INK 100,20:FOR t-1 TO LEN(a$) :PEN c:PRINT MID$(a£,t,1);■c = c +0■5:NEXT [93]
30 CALL 10000: PAPER 0 : LOCATE 1,23: PEN It PRINT '"MONEY * '"-PEN 3: PRINT "#"mo;;PEN
1; PR I NT LOCATE 7.25: PEN 8: PR I NT "(1 =Top )": LOG AT [9D]
E 1,24: PRINT "Choose Lane U-5) [9D]
40 WHILE iSO"":i$=INKEYS:WEND:WHILE iS-"":i$=INKEYS:WEND:PEN 9:IF OR i$>
"5" THEN PRINT CHRS(7 ) ; : i$ = " " :GOTO 10 ELSE PRINT i&: [31]
SOUND 1,400,10 p 15:FOR k=l TO 1000:NEXT [34]
50 LOCATE 1,24: PRINT STRINGS ( 38 „ " LOCATE 1.25: PRINT " (#1 to #100)": LOCATE 1.2
4;PEN 6:LINE INPUT "Place your bet f" ,na$ : na=VAL ( naS [E2]
); IF naOlNT(na) OR na)mo OR na<l OR na>100 THEN PRINT CHRS ( 7 );: GOTO 50 ELSE LOC
ATE 1 „ 23 : PRINT STRINGS (56,” "):mo=mo-na [E2 J
60 LOCATE 1,23:PEN 1:PRINT "MONEY * ";:PEN 3:PRINT "#"mo;:PEN 1:PRINT "*":PEN 11
: PR I NT ‘T'na-bet on lane " x $ : CALL 10092:IF PEEK[ 2500 [£A]
1 ) = VAL{ i $ ) THEN PRINT "WON'* : mo=mo4na* (INT(RND(1 ) *8) + 2 ) : IF tno>9999 THEN PEN 14 ■ LO
CATE 2,13:PRINT "YOU ARE A RICH MAN":END (2A]
70 IF PEEK(25000}<>VAL(i$) AND mo<l THEN PEN 15:LOCATE 2,13:PRINT "YOU ARE A PO
OR MAN":END:ELSE FOR t=l TO 3000rNEXT:CALL 10065:GOT [28]
0 30 [28]
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1140011910E9C911B4270B16E506081A77231310FAE1CD26BC0D [A1]
20F0C9DD21C-05D0605DD6E00DD660111 64 28C5CD3E27DD2 3DD2 3C11 0ECC906230EFAQ00D2.0FC10F8
ED5F4 7AF3CFE0628FA10FR32A861DD21BE5D8717DD [A4]
S® DATA 2 310FCDD6601DD6E002 3DD7 401DD7500CD3B2 7DD6 6 01DD6E0 0110800197EFE0028BF3AA8
G13 2A961C90000000C0C58A000000 00C0F0FB5 7A0000040F0E0D [87)
3FFF280004 0E0D2D3FFFj.28000D0E0F2D 1F2F1E000D0D0F1E0E0F1 E000D1C3C3C2D0404000D0F0F0F
0F0808001C3C3C3C3C3C3C0000000000000000000D [87]
100 DATA 0F0F0F0F0F1E0000000®0000000000®C®C0C0C0C0C0C000D0F®F0F0F8F1E000D0C0D0C0
E0C1E000D0D2D1C0E1E1E000D0D2D1C0E1E1E000D0D2D1C0E1E1 [D4]
E00141E2D1C0E2D2 80004 0F0F3C0F0F2800001C0F0F0F3C000000003C3C3C [D4]
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Amstrad User January 1990
n IC f* BY m. wood
MANAGER
It's amazing just what can be
done in only 10 lines. Here we
present a disc manager pro¬
gram which enables files to be
renamed, erased or un-erased
and to boot a CP/M program. All
clever stuff.
10 INPUT "What Drive A or B ; de vS =UPPERS ( de v$ ) : IF devSO M A H AND dev$<> B B ,t
THEN 10 ELSE us^iIF d e v $ = " A" THEN !A ELSE !B [ 4 A ]
20 INK 0,0:BORDER 0:PAPER 0;INK 1,17:PEN 1:MODE 2:WINDOW ^,1,80,1,20;WINDOW *1,
1,40,21,26; WINDOW ■# 2 . 4 2,80,21,2 5 : PR 1 NTf 1 , "R-Rename F [7F]
i le 1N ■ SPC( 9 ) ; "E-ERASE Fi1e":PRINT-1 , "U-Unerase ASCII File S-Chan gc User'" : PR I NT# 1
, "D-Dir C-CAT P-Eoot CPM*';IDIH [7F]
30 POKE &A701,us:PAPER »2,1:PEN 1 #2,0 : CLS*2 : x$ = INKEYS : IF sS = M “ THEN 30 [D4]
40 x S =UPPER$(x$) : IF x$="R” THEN GOSUB 90:INPUT "NEW NAME " ,nfi1 $ : !REN.nfi1$.fiI $
: CLS : 3 DIR ELSE IF x* = '*E" THEN GOSUB 90 : ! ERA t f i 1 $ : CLS f B2 ]
:!DIR lB2]
50 IF xS= M S" THEN CLS#2:INPUT #2,"USER 0-255 ’\us ;CLS#2: IF us<0 OR us>255 THEN G
OTO 50 ELSE POKE AA701,us:CLS:!D1R [20]
60 IF xS= M D w THEN CLSiIDIR ELSE IF x3="C" THEN CLS:CAT [6E]
70 IF xS = "U M THEN POKE &A701,229:CLS:PRI NT”Erased Fi1es":CAT:INPUT #2."ASCII FIL
E TO UNERASE ";ascii$;INPUT #2,"New User 0-15 " ( nuss [EF]
$iIF VAL(nuseS)>15 OR VAL(nuseS)<0 THEN 70 ELSE GOTO 100 [EF]
80 CALL &BB03 : IF xS; ,, P ,t THEN [ CPM ELSE 30 TB0]
90 CLS#2 : INPUT#2 . "INPUT FILENAME , f i 1 $ :CLS#2 : RETURN [F9]
100 ctS-nuseSO* :"+asciiS:OPENIN (ascii$j :OPENOUT (ctS):WHILE NOT EOF:INPUT #9,tS
:PRINT#9 t t$:WEND:CLOSEIN:CLOSEOUT:CLS#2:GOTO 30 [DD]
MORSE CODE
TELETYPE
BY C. WOOTTON
If you want to learn the coded
communication method of
Henry Morse, just type in these
few lines and you will begin to
see dots before your eyes.
Pressing letters on the key¬
board converts the characters
into their morse equivalent.
1 ’Morse Code Teletype [71]
2 ’By Chris Wooton [72]
10 DIM me(25) :FOR a = 0 TO 25:READ me(a):NEXT:MODE 2 [8B]
20 i $=UPPERS ( I NKEYS ) ; IF (i$<’ , A” OR i$>"Z") GOTO 20 [A3]
30 mc=mc(ASC(i$)-65):GOSUB 40;PRINT #0," ”;;GOTO 20 [7C]
40 me $ = BIN ${me):IF POS(*0)+LEN(mc$}>79 THEN PRINT S0:PRINT
#0 [0C]
50 FOR b=2 TO LEN(mc$);x$=MID$(mcS,b,1) [12]
60 PRINT #0 , CHRS { 4 6+ ( x$ = '* 1 ’*} ) ; : NEXT : RETURN [4B]
70 DATA 5,24,26,12,2,18,14.16,4.23.13’. 20,7 [7D]
80 DATA 6,15.22,29,10,8,3,9,17,11,25,27,28 [BA]
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Amstrad User January 1930
The BrunLLJord Package CPC6128 £30
BrunWord 6128 Is a complete word processing system consisting of three programmes r a
word processor, a spelling checker and a card filing programme. It Is written to run on a
standard unexpanded CPC6128 for CPC464 + disc + 64K) and Is optimised for use with a
single disc drive* The latest version was released In October 19SS and out performs any
other word processor for the CPC6128* The reason Is quite simply that the latest versions
of our competitors programmes have been designed for other larger computers whereas
BrunWord has been perfected for the CPC6128. _ _ _ _
The integrated spelling checker of BrunWord
6126 and its 30,000 word dictiy load at the
same time as the mam programme. We Invented a
special system to compact the dictionary $o much
that each word is represented by just one and a
half characters. Each group of words had to be
given the correct group ending and typed In by
hand, taking one "man 1 six months to complete.
With such a compact dictionary, we are able to
store this in the 64K of banned memory, making
access very convenient and exceptionally fast.
Our closest rival claimed that their spelling
checker achieves "up to 2000 words per minute'.
Our tests, published at the October 88 Amstrad
show, revealed that its average speed for a tile of
3366 words was only 526 words per minute and
much more 50 our surprise, that it required eight
changes ot the disc to complete the spelling test,
•Our spelling checker, BrunSpell, achieved 3833
words per minute for exactly the same test and
needed no disc in the drive. Remember that all
other word processors need to load the dictionary
trom disc during the spelling test, even the SO
called POM versions.
Scrolling the screen one line at a time, is also a
vital performance test, as the CPC6128 tends to
be natvally slow at this. Again, our closest rival is
widely regarded as very fast, but BrunWord is 401
taster, * „ , * *
BrunWord has a 40 page manual which has
several detailed examples, starting with step by
step instructions to produce and print a simple
letter. But your very first step is to load the
TUTOR file into BrunWord, This takes even the
complete novice straight into word processing and
demonstrates the powerful editing and formatting
features of BrunWord. There are also examples pt
printer control, showing how to create headings,
to underline or to emphasis, and five deliberate
spelling errors tor you to correct. The tutor takes
about 20 minutes to run through and after that
you will teal confident to type in your own text*
Our Booklet 'BrunWord fi Printer' has 5 pages
devoted to the BrunWord 6128 package*
BrunWord Features
WO, B0 or l!B column dlioliy Movch typing Ifnr □ **- r
200 # O r (J*/ml n r7 r .j» «rn*rt or ov^rwrir# *JuHify Or
uTlJiiVtlty paragraph &r *1*0Iff t|<! hat
balanced *pp**r*nci " Instant #c?rtf ** ap *&»cck uv< r
m&vifl, copy, insert an-d d t * *l4'C*i * citing wi'h word
da * t»/und* i* it " Ad) vit *b i* margin g *nd T A B g
* CoI m mh/L!n*/Paga dig-dir with *3i# n*m* "Tru* i
count *6-ind and r*pUt* T H*lp m*nuj *M*(nory tiling
*5ingi* chiractff am&eddtd printer commandf
[ll m th J print*r codas and 21 whh 10 prinur c od**)
'Pig* t*ira„ marh*rs 'HuItiol• -EOpi*4 "Odd/***n c-*g*
h**c*rs/too 1«r 5 wifh page numbers T Mplti file priming
[no™ p*gg or continuous!! Tf r.n' ipacifitd csges "W^rti*
■ailh an Y primer "True dopier mi>*r*cript and ■subscript
numoeri *llHr defined print cherecler^ "L<?*d ASCII file*
from other *ord processor? *S*ve ASCII files f&r <?thet
TfOrd prp-raegors " Files can be encrypted T M*Kirtiym Hie
size about 9 page^ of tact,
BrunSpeiJ Features
'H*hOff reildeni *.tit *ord proves vor ac he chi *, 0O<2
w4ra»/min *50,000 word dictionary »n« American
spailihga * Add up to 5,000 o+ your o»n word* T]n*tjnt
ip^kup * Help* to lino correct sp* ling "Automatic
Corr action,
DataFiJe Features
*Alph*biii<*l, numerical, date sorting on any field "User
denned heedingv "Search routine "Date merging Info
SrgnWdrd "Label printing.
Info-Script £50
Take- the BrunWord package, expand the simple
card filing programme into a comprehensive
relational database and integrate this info
BrunWord. The result is Info-Script. The database
uses many of the internal routines of the word
processor, making a very compact combination and
allowing both programmes, 6 pages of text and
KMX) names and addresses to be in the memory at
the same time, using an unexpended CRCdIJB. The
great advantage of this is the speed and
convenience of being able to access both
programmes and their related data without any
disc decays. Add to this the progressive search
routines, the unique four marker system and the
arithmetical functions and you will begin to
understand the excitement of ou- r customers,
BrunUJard Upgrade
Send your BrunWord 6120 disc, BrunWgcd manual (not
the packing) and a £22 cheque. We will record
Info-Script, testj and return with a new manual.
Letters
I am extremely interested in the sound' ot your
Info-Script. However, as Ihe cost is £5& l sm
somewhat hesitant In purchasing and would therefore
be graleiui for any iurther literature. I am presently
using Protext on ROM. with Pronnacgo and Pr 5 -filer,
but accessing Pro-filer 3s incredibly slow and Jong
winded, ^our Bdvert would indicate that access time
to stored data is much superior,
Mr (3 (Nottingham),
Thank you lor my recent copy of Info-Script. My
euphoria has nearly died down no* - it is superb* it
is a big improvement on my Pro lent and Pro-filer in
that it combines the two with vastly superior speed
and is exactly what J need.
Mr G (Nottingham).
May i take this opportunity to express my
appreciation of BrunWord, My son has been the main
user. After years of torture in school wdtl pert in
hand, the use of the word processor 1 enabled him for
the first lime to concentrate upon the substance of
what he wanted to wnle, and return later to correct
and organise* The net result is that a young mar
who formally struggled at school and hated it, now
accomplishes Ihe written components of his course
with ease and set is tag (ion,
Mr G (Sutton Coldheld).
I have found it (BrunWord) a very easy word
processor to use, and the more I use it the more 1
like it. The same goes for Jnfo-Scriot, the more I
use it the easier and more flexible it becomes,
Mr L (Australia),
BrunWord Elite £90
Our original aim in designing This programme was fo
produce a last desk top publisher with very good
quality printing and a memory resident spelling
checker. A tew jottings on a scrap of paper
revealed that two 256K memory expansions would
be needed and that even then it would be far too
slow, BrunWord Elite is our solution to this dilemma
and runs on an unexpanded CPC6128 (or CPC4&4 *
disc + 64K), It starts by assuming that the printer
knows best how to print and provides only a
controlling hand, to help choose the best
compromise. It follows that the best results are
achieved with the best printers.
The text is typed (or loaded) into the editor with
no regard for the final layout. It Is edited and spell
checked using all the normal features and speed of
BrunWord 6128, When this i$ done, a set ot layout
commands are placed at the start ot the text. With
these commands the text can be printed anywhere
and everywhere on a sheet, just so long as the
facilities used are available with your printer. Boxes
and tines can be drawn and different fonts can be
downloaded to print in different type faces.
The idea is that the user will create several page
layout patterns (or use the ones supplied) and then
only need to worry about typing and editing the
text* The screen will not show the actual layout, if
it did it would be painfully slow and would not
achieve the ultimate quality,
BrunWord Elite has all the features of BrunWord
6126, all the features dt Into-Script and seven
24 pin fonts (tour fonts in different sizes)* It is
supplied with a printer lead and an 8 bit printer
status port which allows the programme to
interrogate the printer. Printer OFF, No Paper,
OFF Line, ON Line are the status messages that
keep you informed dynamically of the current
printer condition.
BrunWord Elite works with any Epson compatible
printer, which means ALL modern dot matrix
printers. At the bottom end, even the simplest 9 pin
printer will be able to print In up to six columns. It
the printer has IBM codes (as well) then simple
lines and boxes can be drawn, and if the printer has
reverse tine teed, then text can be printed
anywhere and everywhere on a page.
At the top end a 24 pin printer will be able to
use the fonts supplied with the programme, print
boxes and lines by specifying size and line
thickness, and use micro Justification with
proportional text.
BrunWord Elite printed this advertisement,
except for the layout around the teddy. The text,
lines and price list were printed on an A3 sheet,
then the teddy and address layout were pasted on
and the sheet was photographically reduced to A4.
Compare this to our previous advertisement to see
alt the changes. Section have been re-written,
moved and then tailored to fit the columns by
changing the font size and fine tuning the line
spacing.
BrunWord and Printer
We have written a sixteen page booklet which explains alt about our programmes, starting
with BrunWord 6128 and going on to Info-Script end BrunWord Elite, The booklet Is an
example of the power of BrunWord Elite* being printed In M size directly from masters
created using BrunWord Elite, Four different 24 pin printers have been used to print the
booklet so that a direct comparison can be made In the quality and technical excellence of
the printing. The last page Includes our own assessment of seven different 24 pin printers
and a summary of four 9 pin printers* The booklet Is free to all CPC owners. Simply write
your name and address In block capitals on a sheet of paper and send In a envelope to
■■BrunWord & Printer'* Brunnlng Software* at the address below*
Send cheque/PO/Access number/Visa number tot
Brurtmng Software
34 Helston Road,
Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 5JF E3 33E
Telephone (0245) 252854 (24 Hours)
BrunWord 6128 with BrunSpell &■ DataFite. . , £30*00
BrunWord 464 with BrunSpell £ DataFile. . . £25*00
BrunWord Junior 6128 with BrunSpell* * . . , £18,00
BrunWord Elite 6128* Info-Script & BrunSpell. - £90.00
In I o-Script 6128 with BrunWord i BrunSpell, . £50.00
100 Letters (needs Info-Script). .......** £15*00
BrunWord Elite and Info^Script include backup disc*
(All supplied on Sin Disc - state which computer)
All prices are inclusive for UK. Overseas orders sent
insured air mail - Europe add £2.50 i Rest add £7.50
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Amstrad User January 1990
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Superb fast action gameplay featuring real teams from (tie Football Leagues.
@ Each team defined with the correct strips.
Create your own superleagues, cup competitions and build your strongest squad.
Each player in the team has his own characteristics- skid level, speed and
style of play. The skill level of your team can be improved through playing well
Realistic ball control allowing you to chip over, cu rf round or dri bble Ihrough
the opposition. The unique "Boot-O-Meter" enables you to vary the strength, height
and spin of any kick.
® Full control of comers, free kicks and goal kicks.
Heading, tackling and fouling,
3£* Full, realistic control of goalkeepers.
E$? Superb one or two player action.
Play In a whole range of league,, cup and practice matches or just practice
penalties, free kicks and comers.
The Country'smost exciting computer game, endorsed by the country's most
exciting player!
“Don't forget, buy Gala's Super Soccer. It's the No 1 Computer Game."
Available for Amiga, Atari ST, Spectrum, Amstrad and C64
4 THE SlANNETTS. LAINDOf*. NORTH TRADE CENTRE. 8ASHDQN.
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A better image
Trevor Cummings
flexes the grey matter
and discusses the
production of
external graphics via
the CPC, among
other things.
N ow that the Hurry over the new
copyright laws has died down
somewhat it is interesting to
see that Romantic Robot's Multiface II
has returned to the market place,
albeit in a quieter fashion than when it
left. You remember all the last chance
to buy' ads which graced our pages for
several months, making us think its
now or never, and all the news items
pointing to the MFII as the big gun
that was about to bite the dust under
the onslaught of the new laws? It
seems like only a couple of months
since we bought now or forever held
our peace. Come to think of it, it was
only a couple of months ago. Were we
all conned then? No, not really, Ro-
matie Robot did the right thing in
withdrawing the MFII from sale at the
time. The risk of prosecution was too
great. They have now taken legal
advice and are assured that their
product is completely safe from the
law and consequently have begun to
sell it again. I hope they’re right as a
legal defence could costs tens of thou¬
sands of pounds. Welcome back Multi-
face IL We missed you. Well, for a littie
while anyway,
Peter Brunning of Brunning Soft¬
ware is feeling particularly pleased
with himself just now. Not just be¬
cause their innovative word process¬
ing system, Brunword Elite, is set for
imminent release as I write this, and
will be on sale as you read it (watch
this space for a full review) but be¬
cause their booklet Brunword & Fhn-
ter , which was advertised previously
but seemed to fade away, is now at the
printers and will be available free to all
who send their name and address to
Brunword & Printer, Brunning Soft¬
ware, 34 Helston Road, Chelmsford,
Essex CM I 5JF, Its 16, A4 size pages
take the reader right through all Bmn-
ning’s software from Brunword 6128
to Info-Script to Elite and is printed by
Brunword using four different 24 pin
printers. Summaries of 9 and 24 pin
printers used together with Brunword
are included in this nice little freebie
booklet. Thanks Peter, Tt r s good to see
such a helpful service.
On the other hand I am sorry to see
the demise of MicroSLyle's unique 3rd
Drive Switching Cable, It was the only
product available which allowed the
use of three disc drives on the CPC. I
understand that technical difficulties
are the reason for ending the line.
And now .. .
The main subject 1 want to cover
this month is the means of repro¬
ducing external graphics or pictures
on a printer, via the CPC, Pm not going
to do a full review but simply discuss
the choices available to us as CPC
users. 1 know of just two methods. One
is Rombo's video digitiser and the
other is Dart's scanner. You may won¬
der about the mouse, light pen and
grafpad methods, but these don't
reproduce pictures. They are means
of creating them. Both products are
quite different and don’t really com¬
pete with each other. Video digitisers
are naturally limited to video pictures
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Amstrad User January 1990
such as TV programmes, video tapes
and video cameras. Unless you have a
good video camera, your favourite
photographs cannot be digitised and
printed out. The scanner though is
different.. Whilst it cannot accept TV
type pictures, it can and does scan
photograph Si artwork, etc. and stores
the image in the computer for later
printing.
Video digitiser
The Vidi, produced by Rom bo Prod¬
uctions, is, I believe, the only video
digitiser we have for the CPC. Its
software is normally supplied on disc
but is also available on rom. In a
nutshell it will capture into memory a
picture from any standard video
source. It can be fed from the normal
TV signal, a video recorder or, better
still, a video camera, it contains its
own CRT (cathode ray tube) con¬
troller and 16k of video ram enabling it
to capture frames at the rate of more
than six a second w r hich makes watch¬
ing a jerkily moving TV program most
interesting. At any time the current,
frame can be grabbed or frozen into
one of its two screen memories and it
can be done in any one of three
different modes. When grabbed the
digitised picture may be saved on disc
for future use, printed out or even
manipulated in various ways.
Sounds good, doesn’t it? And it is
good! The highest resolution achieved
is in mode 2 which has just two
shades. Mode one, medium resolution
has four shades and mode 0, the
lowest, has 16 shades and is best used
for effects rather than good clean
pictures. The types of image manipu¬
lation made possible by the Vidi is
varied. As we would expect, the col¬
ours can be changed to suit personal
tastes* Obviously colours cannot be
printed out to a standard printer so
care should be taken with this as a
beautiful colour picture on the screen
can tum out to be horrible shades of
grey when printed on paper.
Two images can be grabbed into
two screens. Once there it can be
saved to disc of course and printed
out, but it can also be modified in
various ways. Colours have already
been mentioned. Areas of the picture
can be'cleared, moved and the whole
thing can even be reduced to one
quarter of its original size. By using
the various facilities very interesting
pictures can be produced.
One more thing* The vidi program
sets all its options up as RSXs which
means that the whole thing can be run
from your own basic program and
therefore vidi produced screens are
easily incorporated into your own
games software. A quick bit of think¬
ing will also realise that, if pictures can
be manipulated from basic, then ac¬
tive pictures can also be produced
from basic to accompany, and be
incorporated into, your own pro¬
grams, This can be achieved by the
modifying RSXs. Nifty? I think so,
Scanner
Just got space for a quick discuss¬
ion of the Dart Scanner, Like the Vidi,
it is the only device offered for the
CPC that does quite the job it does
which is to scan images, line by line,
and reproduce them in the computer
memory. From there they can be
manipulated to some extent, saved to
disc and printed out on paper. The
main unit, plugs onto the computer's
expansion port and incorporates an
essential brightness control. Its scan¬
ning device fits the print head of the
Amstrad flat bed printers; DMP20G0,
2160, 3000 and 3160, The image to be
scanned is fed through the printer, the
print head is moved across each line
and in this way the whole image is
scanned and built up on the screen, it
takes a few minutes to scan a screen¬
ful, but the results are tremendous.
Black and white subject matter is
usually better than colour of course
due to improved contrast but with
careful adjustment of the brightness
control colour images can be cap¬
tured. Choices can be made as to the
size and magnification of the image to
be scanned. Some choices produce
higher resolution end results than
others and all choices have their own
merit in aesthetic terms.
Once the image is in the computer
and on screen it can be manipulated in
several basic ways. A complete
reversal (mirror image) is the most
obvious and can be used together with
other options to produce very satisfy¬
ing results. It is possible to define an
area to be copied to another area, an
area can be deleted, an area can be
scrolled from side to side or up and
down, an area can be defined and all
around it cleared, a zoom in and edit
function is included to tidy up or
modify the image, screens can be
merged together and, perhaps one of
the best functions, text can be added
to the picture,
With these versatile functions origi¬
nal pictures can be manipulated to
become very attractive designs. When
all is done and saved to disc a printout
is of course required. Even here a
choice is offered between a large
picture and a small one, the small
choice giving the better definition.
Costing £79.95 the scanner is well
worth the money and compares very
favourably with similar products for
other computers.
Both the Vidi and the Scanner are
unique. They produce similar end
results but their image sources are
totally different. The Vidi needs a
video input which limits most of us to
other people's original artwork. The
Scanner inputs our own artwork,
whether photographs or drawings. So
it isn't really a case of choosing be¬
tween two competitors. It's more a
case of which suits what I want to do
the best . 0
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Micro!
The highly acclaimed program creator now gets even better!
Pandora has hern orreieu as a tyeakihfouQh in program development, tt was specially written Because Pandora a evolving an me time, we ll keep you up in date with enh,
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suggested by emrxjsiastic owners due cut in November and featuring numerous new (.rtvincements.
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* Jp jo 4B standard or animated sprites * Can comp ic directly from Ftnieio memory
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sprues * Comprehensive manual wins examples
* Super last multi featured sprue edfccr * Several demonstraicns and wonting games
* Compiles to stand alone programs mi luded
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debugging
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A box of
delights
Fancy generating your
own sprites without
messing around with
machine code? We
review a package that
could let your
imagination run wild.
H aving looked through the vari¬
ous demonstrations and glan¬
ced through the manual, 1 must
"say that I am impressed. Sprites Alive
allows 64 on-screen sprites, animation
and sequencing from stored images,,
pixel smooth motion, collision de¬
tection* It also adds 70 RSX com¬
mands to Basic, a sprite designer
program and a comprehensive man¬
ual. All of this for just £19.95 - it has to
be a bargain.
The system is based around a set of
RSX commands which, when loaded
into memory* provide control over
sprites, sounds, graphics and key¬
board/] oy stick access. The package
provides very sophisticated control
over the sprites and quite complex
programs can be created in a
relatively small number of program
statements. The biggest problem with
the package lies in its sophistication
as it is quite hard to figure out how to
get started before reading the manual
- 1 know that I should have done this
first but I prefer to play around a little
to begin with, just to see how easy the
package is to use. Fortunately there
are six demonstration programs sup¬
plied on the disc providing pre-writ¬
ten routines and pre-drawn sprites
that can be messed about with to get
used to the large number of com¬
mands.
The basic operation of the system
uses up to sixty-four drawings, any or
each of which can be assigned to a
sprite. This means that a number of
sprites can use the same definition or
drawing, giving a great saving in mem¬
ory, The drawings themselves can be
created on screen (modes 0 and 1
only) and then copied into memory as
a sprite definition, or drawn with the
supplied sprite designer and loaded
from disc. There is an oddity here in
that although there is a command to
load the sprite designer drawings
automatically into memory there is
none to save them to disc. Attaching
the sprites to drawings is quite simple,
as is assigning direction and speed.
Once these basic parameters have
been set up, alt the sprites can be set
in motion either individually or with
the overall command MOVE ALL.
This means that a Basic loop with a |
MOVE ALL command in it is all that is
needed to get everything moving*
There can be up to sixty-four
sprites on the screen at any one time -
though things get a little slow with this
many - and of these there are two
main types; joystick or keyboard-
controlled and standard sprites. The
first are controlled directly bv the
movement of the joystick or by key¬
presses on the keyboard. You can
select which directions and which
keys to use, and also the speed at
which the sprite moves. Thus, there is
an easy way of providing the user with
a playing sprite (e.g. a bat or a
spaceship) without any special
routines for reading the joystick or
keyboard. This is a theme that runs
through the whole package; com¬
mands are designed to take the work
out of programming.
Collisions are automatic and of
three types: stop* disappear and
bounce. Depending on how it was set
up, the sprite stops, disappears, or
bounces w T hen it hits another sprite*
No program intervention is required*
though more basic functions are sup¬
plied to let the user know 7 which
sprites collided. Again, the package is
Page 28
Amstrad User January 1990
comprehensive in that although there
are many complex commands, the
basics are still available: the joystick
and keyboard can be read, for ex¬
ample, as well as being used for auto¬
control of sprites.
There are sixty-two standard
sprites, each of which measures up to
32x32 pixels. Each can be given a
direction and speed, a collision attri¬
bute, a box to limit its movement, and
an attribute defining what it does
when it hits the edge of the screen.
There are also a number of 'feedback'
commands that allow r information
about the sprites to be fed back to the
user program. The position, direction
and collision status can be read for
each sprite as well as miscellaneous
system attributes such as the amount
of free memory.
As well as simple moving sprites,
there are a set of commands that allow
animation sequences to be created.
The drawings to be used in the defi¬
nition are linked to the sprite and then
cycled through when the sprite is
moved. In addition, the sequence of
drawings used is dependent on the
direction of the sprite. This makes
animating objects such as walking
people, flying dragons and spinning
spaceships, very easy.
Yet another built-in facility is a set
of commands to automate the firing of
missiles. Once the various parameters
have been defined, a missile can be
fired simply by issuing a SHOOT
command for the sprite wishing to
fire. Missiles automatically disappear
when they reach the side of the screen
and stop, giving a collision report,
when they hit another sprite. The
provision of specialised commands for
missiles takes yet another chore away
from game writing; this seems to be
the main aim of the package.
Not satisfied with providing a com¬
prehensive sprite management sys¬
tem, the author has also included a
useful set of commands for other
functions. Drawings can be placed on
the screen in non-sprite form to pro¬
vide scenery: sprites can be exploded:
there is a frame synchronisation com¬
mand; checks can be made to see
whether sprites are stuck together;
and screen pixels can be tested and
set. Sound effects can be set up and
attached to sprites so that when mis¬
siles are fired, sprites exploded, or
bounces occur, the sound will be
initiated.
The provision of nodes is a rather
unusual facility. These allow mazes to
be created that constrain the sprite
positions within them. A sprite can be
moving in a certain direction and hit
upon a node. The definition of the
node will then tell the sprite supervi¬
sor what direction the sprite can take.
The example given is a Pacman-type
game where the nodes are the junc¬
tions: the ghosts wander around the
maze changing direction when they
hit a junction - defined as nodes. As
nodes are fairly difficult to set up,
there is a node designer program
supplied on disc that helps out. Once
defined, the node set can be loaded
into the game. Sprites moving around
the maze can be set to pursue the
joystick or keyboard sprite or flee
from it; it seems to be tailor-made for
creating a Pacman-type game.
Sprites Alive is aimed at the user
who can program in Basic but who
does not want to get dirty hands
messing about with all that horrible
machine code. It removes all the hard
wwk and makes using sprites very,
very easy.
Product: Sprites Alive
Machine: Amstrad CPC
Supplier: Glenco Software,
15 Alford Lane,
Stockton on Tees,
Cleveland TS19 OQP
Price: £19.93
Amstrad User January 1990
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The ghouls don’t stand a ghost of a chance
with this month’s main mega questing, [
1
(tm farc
monster blasting game Ghouls ’n’ Ghosts. \
1 <«
vlutil vLUliJ
Hit Squad
This month’s Gameplan continues f
]
Rokop .
Ocean
the dead theme as a deceased detective tries fa
1 < 4>
to clear his name in Scapeghost. |
Hit Squad
Code Masters
Top Gun
US Gold
Twin Turbo V8
Code Masters
The brave knight Arthur
tackles the forces of darkness
as he tangles with Lucifer in a
quest for a missing princess*
fill T T
A killer psycho duck goes on
the rampage with some very
heavy artillery.
T
(5)
i
(16)
3
( 6 )
II
(NE>
(9)
12
(13)
13
Indiana Jones
Last Crusade
Hit Squad
Ocean
Green Beret
Hit Squad
Strike Forte Harrier
Alternative
Crazy Cars 2
Titus
Dragon Jiinja .
Ocean
Enduro Racer
One mean and muscular hero
returns to a warn tom Earth
to beat up the bad guys and
set the world to rights.
Sporting Triangles, Star Wars Trilogy,
Mutant Fortress and Scapeghost.
(in
Hit Squad
11
Vigilante
(NE)
US Gold
15
Spitfire 40
(17)
Alternative
11
Crossfire
(NE)
Atlantis
IT
Ellyn Hughes Int, Soccer
(19)
Audiogenic
11
Moving Target
(NE)
Players
13
Vie At Kung Fu
(12
Hit Squad
21
Rick Dangerous
(NE)
Rain bird
Last month's position in brackets
TT_ ..... ■ t it r ’ 1 ti
Battle it out with the undead and recover
kidnapped Princess Prin Prin in this spooky
romp through the underworld.
O nce more the fair
princess Prin Prin
finds herself in evil
clutches and none but the
brave knight Arthur can
save her. Donning his
armour he sets forth, lance
in hand, to show Lucifer the
error of his ways.
The undead can be a little
funny about property rights
and it is only to be expected
when they get a little upset
about our hero tramping
over their graves. Being
polite, they creep up behind
Arthur and try to attract his
attention by tapping him on
the neck with their scythes.
Quite unreasonably, Arthur
takes offence and sticks
them with his lance. This
brings an end to what could
have been a pleasant stroll
to Hell as the local inhabi¬
tants arise to kick up a stink.
The quest starts upon
desolate ground where the
dead challenge the annour
plated hero. These trendy
ghouls with their over-the -
s boulder shrouds and
designer scythes make the
perfect fashion accessory 7
for any questing hero. The
occasional ghoul carries a
golden pot which, upon its
demise, releases an
enchanted object. These
objects can be anything
from the latest, in high-tech
axes to those all-alluring
bonus points. The second
method of gaining bonus
points and additional
weaponry is to tempt the
wrath of the sorcerers by
whacking their chests with
your weapon. If favourable
to your quest they will grant
you a mighty weapon or
some magical armour but if
not, you could find yourself
on the end of some heavy
duty sorcery and spend a
short time as a duck.
There are five weapon
types for Arthur to w r ield,
each varying in speed,
power and trajectory. The
lance and sword foliow a
straight path to their target
but at different speeds. The
axe, however, takes an up¬
ward angle, w T hich is great
for shooting flying monsters
but lousy when running
downhill as all you can do is
shoot over the heads of
monsters. The discus avoids
most of these problems by
Hying straight until it hits
the landscape which it then
hugs until striking its victim
or leaving the screen. The
final weapon is the flaming
flask which has a limited
range but a long-lasting ef¬
fect as it sets lire to the
ground. If power armour is
obtained, the magical side of
these weapons can be util¬
ised. The lance calls dow T n
the lightning with devastat¬
ing effect; the sw r ord creates
a double to aid you and the
final three release glowing
balls which spiral into the
heavens destroying all they
encounter.
Each of the five levels is
split into two sections; los¬
ing a life takes you back to
the start of the current sec¬
tion. Once past the rising
dead, guillotines and vul¬
tures, the rain begins and
you battle your way past
whirling dervishes to meet
head on the end-level
guardian. This giant seems
to have a severe case of
dandruff but instead of the
odd flake his entire head
floats free. Avoid the mis¬
siles issuing from its mouth,
land a few T good blows and a
key is liberated, taking you
to further adventures on the
next deathdefying level.
From the rain soaked hills
the knight moves to another
extreme, the life-sucking
heat of the desert. The
rundowTL windmills look a
little out of place in this
scenery but the cultural
clash is minimal compared
to the leaping turtles. This
level boasts one of the
hardest parts to the game
and a monster of which bad
dreams are made. Halfway
through the level you find
yourself sliding down a pit in
the sand, what awaits at the
bottom appears indestruc¬
tible and is little more than a
jaw with legs. Later you
struggle with bottomless
pits and then a final encoun¬
ter with a leaping end-level
guardian.
The first two levels are
pretty tough but things
deteriorite rapidly as you
storm a monster-filled castle
before pressing on to find
yourself once again in the
land of the dead. Sloping ice
pathways add a new angle
but the end-level guardian is
really odd, its a dead w r hale.
This gigantic carcass has a
few infestations which until
removed bar your exit to the
next and final level.
After battling your way
past some pretty heavy
minions you reach the
heights of the evil fortress to
confront Lucifer in the guise
of a winged monstrosity.
Defeat Lucifer and free the
princess so all can live hap¬
pily ever after and you can
hear the nice Elizabethan
victory tune.
This game is very playa¬
ble, The graphics and sound
effects are not outstanding
but the joy of playing this
game outweighs all such
minor considerations.
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'1
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I you think it's bad en¬
ough that atomic war has
done away with the earth
as we know it, along with
most of . your trucking
chums, and filled it with
such socially acceptable
guys as lizard men and ‘mu-
ties’ instead (not to mention
a fair smattering of pretty
malicious looking seagulls),
think again.
Imagine the scenario:
there you are, minding your
own business over a burger
at Greasy l ex’s post-apoco-
lyptic truckers’ paradise,
when these nasty chappies
have the gall to hijack your
most treasured possession -
your beloved armour plated
eighteen wheeler.
Now, you ask any 'king of
the road’ how he would feel
in a situation like this, even
without the added in¬
clemencies of a recent nu¬
clear war, and I think you
will be able to understand all
round hard guy Brad being a
littJe hacked off by it all.
So, high in expectation,
with a Yorkie in my pocket
and a pistol on my hip, I
gulped down my burger and
prepared to battle my way
through this latest budget
epic from Flayers in a des¬
perate bid to rescue my
chrome damsel from the
mutant fortress.
Unfortunately, I have to
admit that after spending
some time despatching with
pan-faced zombies, catching
my leg in man-traps and
wading waist deep in quag¬
mires my expectations had
sunk somewhat, leaving me
with indigestion and a pro¬
found feeling that I
shouldn’t have hurried that
burger.
My overall impression of
the release is: great idea,
shame about the game.
Those well-worn combat
tactics 'dodge, weave, shoot
. . . jump, weave, shoot' w r ill
see you nicely through the
earlier stages but before
long forward progress be¬
comes painfully slow.
Picking up extra ammu¬
nition and strength where
and when you can will even¬
tually lead you to an end-of-
level guardian who is
slightly meaner than his cro¬
nies and well worth saving a
few bullets for.
Having plodded through
the forest and wasteland
stages to level three, you get
the added attraction of be¬
ing fired at yourself before
finally meeting the infamous
head rnutie, Quinton
Smythe;
The information display
at the bottom of the screen
keeps you well up to date
with your weaponry and
physical status, which is de¬
pleted on contact with the
mu ties, but it is also one of
the most colourful bits.
Although the graphics in
the play arena are clear and
well-defined, the monotone
shades of yellow and green
at the earlier stages are not
particularly impressive.
All in all, rather than
shooting a path through to
the mutant fortress, hard
guy trucker Brad's time
would probably have been
belter spent putting a call
through to his post-apoeo-
lyptic insurance brokers and
leafing through Auto Mart
for a new rig.
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Y ou may be one of those
people who perceive
ducks as harmless
feathered fowl that go well
with oranges, but this game
could drastically change
your point of view, A mad
duck is a mean dude and this
duck is exceptionally
disgruntled.
When the delectable Lucy
fell foul of the fiend
Achacha, Bin and Pm set
forth to wreak retribution.
Unfortuntely Pin had to
cancel his appearance due
to the shortcomings of 8-bit
technology. Despite having
to face the bad guys alone,
Bin puts up a brave fight
(probably due to the port¬
able rocket launcher he
totes) but he soon finds the
need for a hard bitten joys¬
tick jockey to guide his
actions; enter you. This
mission is not. without its
hazards and anyone delving
into this world cannot do so
without having a few mental
boundaries stretched as the
characters encountered are
nothing short of bizarre. The
bouncing dog and deer
heads I could handle but the
rats with spring midriffs and
large booted mice took a
little bit of swallowing, but
very tasty they were.
For once, the CPC pulls
out all the stops and brings
on the multi-colour sprites.
In fact the graphics are great
and the combination of
quality and variety make
this a game a visual treat.
Unfortunately to achieve
this memory guzzling feat
You are a loveable duck armed with a
portable rocket launcher, out to
rescue your girlfriend. Watch out for
the bouncing dog heads.
arsenal that would make
Rambo envious. Each
weapon has a limited
number of uses but as they
are plentiful this is no prob¬
lem, You start with rocks
and bombs but progress to
the deadlier homing missiles
and rocket launched boxing
gloves. If your duck finds
himself without the benefits
of hardware he can always
employ the secret weapon, a
right hook that would put
Tyson to shame. The longer
you hold down the fire but¬
ton the larger his fist
becomes, releasing the but¬
ton lets the punch fly.
The animal adversaries
which our duck must battle
come in many forms, the
deadliest being the mid and
end level guardians. Most
monsters encountered are
easily killed and doing so
occasionally liberates food
in the form of cake which
can be used to replenish
depleted energy levels. The
guardians depart from the
animal theme as they are
the size of the playing area
has been reduced. This
means that it is all too easy
to wander past the weapon
of your dreams because it is
just off screen when you
pass. Despite its size the
scrolling play area conveys
the impression of a large
play area as it twists and
turns through urban streets
and jungle tracks.
To combat the myriad
menagerie of monsters the
hero has at his disposal an
made from the elements.
Fire, electricity and stone
being the common ones.
Combating the fire
elementals is far from easy
as you try to douse their
spirits with a water cannon.
The action is constant and
the cartoonish characters
make this game ideal for the
younger psychopath,
Adrian Pumphrey
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Licence to Kill — Playing
Tips
Level 1 In this level, the opening
scene from the film, the drug
baron Sanches is in a jeep trying
to escape from Bond who is in a
US Coastguard helicopter. The
jeep swerves from side to side as
it tries to evade you r and will fire
at you if you get too close. You
can only shoot the jeep when the
helicopter s nose is tilted forward
as you accelerate, otherwise your
shots will go over it.
The best tactic to get the jeep is
to attack it as soon as the level
begins and get as many hits on it
as possible. With any luck you will
have destroyed it before you
reach the huts and em¬
placements where Sanchez's
henchmen are positioned. After
playing this level a few times you
will learn where the henchmen
are, and you can line up your
helicopter before they come onto
the screen and shoot them first.
Now you are controlling Bond
himself and you must tackle
Sanchez's men on foot. To aim
your gun, hold the fire button
down and an aiming reticle will
appear in front of Bond, With the
button still pressed, move left and
right to point Bond's gun in the
right direction. Releasing the
button and subsequently press¬
ing it quickly will fire a bullet. It is
best to hide behind objects whilst
aiming, and then running out from
cover to shoot the enemy. Some
henchmen will drop extra maga¬
zines for your gun when they aro
shot, but be careful not to shoot
the magazines, if anybody shoots
an oildmm too many times it will
explode, killing anyone in its vicin¬
ity. This can be very useful for
killing henchmen hiding^ round
corners. By running up to the
enemy, you can rout them from
their hiding places, and they will
HINTS TIPS
MAPS N’ POKES
We kick off the
festive season with
a bonanza of game
cheats and helps.
Be the best on the
block with ACU.
run up the screen looking for new
cover. This is good for clearing the
area of the enemy, but don't
forget they are only going to be
waiting for you further ahead.
Eventually you will reach your
helicopter again, and you must
take off in hot pursuit of Sanchez,
who has now boarded a light
aircraft and is heading for Cuba.
You are now back controlling
the helicopter as Bond dangles
below on a winch cable. Sanchez
will dodge out of you way when¬
ever you get close, but your must
try to position Bond over the tail of
the aircraft and press the fire
button when he is within reach.
Bond won't be able to grab on to
the tail when he Is beneath
clouds, so you must find a clear
section of sky. If you are success¬
ful, Bond will tie the cable round
the tail of the aircraft and this will
cause it to stall. Then Bond will
parachute from the helicopter.
Level 2 In this level Bond is
making his getaway from the
Wavekrest, pursued by frogmen
and boats. By pushing forward on
the joystick Bond will swim
underwater, and cannot be seen
by the snipers on the boat, but he
can be seen by other divers, who
will try to harpoon him. However,
Bond can only stay underwater
for a limited amount of time, as he
hasn't got an unlimited air supply.
Bond will also be able to destroy
bags of drugs which float on the
water by pressing the fire button
to use his knife and cut the bags
open for extra points. To kill a
diver. Bond must move in very
close and stab them by pressing
the fire button. Bond will then
have the diver's harpoon gun,
which will be shown on the status
panel.
After dodging harpoons and
boats for a while a seaplane will
drift onto view at the top of the
screen. Bond must now use his
newly acquired harpoon gun to
shoot one of the pontoons of the
seaplane. If his shot is successful,
he will be dragged behind the
seaplane, and must waterski
barefoot to get to the cockpit, He
can gradually work his way up the
rope by pushing the joystick for¬
ward, but be careful to avoid
rocks and buoys in the water, as
well as the boats who are still
firing at you.
Level 3 This is the final level and
portrays the thrilling truck chase
at the end of the film. The other
obstacle is the other tankers. You
must drive up beside them and
ram them off the road, without
being pushed off yourself. After a
certain amount of damage, the
other truck's cab wil! detach from
its trailer and come after you, This
must be destroyed as well for you
to progress, Once all the tankers
and jeeps are destroyed, you
have finished this level.
APB - playing tips
In APB you play the part of Officer
Bob, whose job it is to clear the
streets of criminals and hood¬
lums. It's a tough job, and all
you've got to start off with is your
trusty police car. The action takes
place over a number of days, and
you can start off on any day up to
Day 8. If you are a novice cop
you'd be better off starting on Day
1, where you have to drive around
a designated course 'arresting'
traffic cones. To arrest a cone,
position the steering wheel over
the cone and press the fire but-
ton. The steering wheel will turn
Into a 'Pull Over' sign and the
cone will be 'arrested'. This is a
good day for earning lots of
money, because after you have
picked up the quota of cones, you
still have plenty of time to pick up
all the others plus a couple of
bonuses and get back to the
station for double points.
From now on you have to face
real criminals, and as each new
type of offender appears when
you start a day, you are shown
what it looks like and how to
arrest it. The most important
thing to do when you first start
playing the real game is to make a
map. The game play area is huge,
and some offenders are found
only in certain places, so it is
imperative that you find them
quickly. You also need to know
where Donut Huts, Speed Shops
and Gas Stations are, so that you
can plan your route to include
getting extra time, extra capabi-
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Ikies and extra fuel respectively.
When your gas level reaches
red, a Gas Truck will appear. If you
'arrest' it you wilt be dragged
along behind it as your gas level
increases, a sort of 'in-flight
refuelling'.
On days when you are notified
of an APB ( you will be given the
location where the criminal is
likely to turn up. If he or she is not
there at first, drive away and they
come back, as they will not turn
up if you are lying in wait! Be
careful as you approach an APB
for the first time as they may
throw a stick of dynamite at you!
You cannot ram an APB off the
road from behind; you must pull
up alongside and then swerve
into them. A Resisto-meter is
shown to depict how many times
you must ram them. It is there¬
fore important to pick up Speed
from the Speed Shops so that you
can catch them, but shooting
them con sometimes slow them
down. You can purchase the gun
from the Speed Shop on day 4,
and buying further guns allows
you to fire more frequently. Be
careful not to shoot innocent bys¬
tanders, or run over pedestrians
as you will get Demerit Points.
On later days you can purchase
Radar, which will T ping' towards
any offender going over the
speed limit. You can then arrest
these offenders.Jf you have your
siren on constantly they might not
speed in front of you.
On some highways are sets of
roadworks, which have detour
signs around them. You can only
iump the ditch if you are going at
high speed, otherwise you will
crash, A word of warning, how¬
ever, if you have a mid-air collision
with another car you will fall into
the ditch and explode.
In fields beside the road you
will find Donuts and money bags.
The Donuts will give you extra
time, but if you go over more than
one in quick succession you will
only get one lot of time. The
money bags can give you a variety
of bonuses from extra money to
'Demerit Erased' and 'Quota
Met', However, occasionally the
money bags are booby-trapped
by unscrupulous criminals, but
the only way you can find out
which is which is to pick one
up , . .
Shinobi — Playing tips
Mission 1 Thugs and knifemen —
these are the most basic bad guys
and can be taken out easily with a
shuriken or a punch/kick.
Swordsmen — watch out for
these guys as they will often
^throw their swords at Joe. Either
Killing Ken.
dash straight in and punch/kick
them before they can throw or
use a shuriken while the sword is
in flight and then jump to avoid
the sword.
Gunmen — these guys will try
and shoot Joe as soon as they see
him. Duck under or jump over
their bullets and either throw a
Shuriken or close in and fight hand
to hand.
Spidermen — they will attempt
to drop on Joe as he goes past.
Either jump towards them and hit
the fire button so Joe slashes
them with his sword or walk
under them and turn around
quickly to punch/kick them.
Ken Oh (end of mission one
baddie) — killing Ken is the aim of
mission one. Duck/jump to avoid
his fireballs then jump into the air
and throw shurikens to hit him in
the eyes.
Mission 2 Frogmen — these guys
only appear on level three of mis¬
sion two. They lurk in the water
between the pillars and jump up
as Joe lands on the pillars. Duck
as Joe lands on the pillars and
kick/punch them when they reach
the top of their jump.
Black Turtle (Giant Helicopter —
mission two baddie) — dodge the
missiles that the helicopter fires
at you and throw shuriken at the
nose of the helicopter to inflict
damage
Mission 3 Ninjas — their swords
will protect them from Joe's shu¬
riken so you have to crouch down
so the stars go under their
swords. You will need to hit them
twice before you will kill them and
watch out when they jump. They
will land on top of Joe so move
quickly out of the way and attack
them when they land.
Buddahs (first part of end of
mission three.) — the Buddahs
move towards you and attempt to
push Joe into the lethal forcefield
that is behind him. Get close to
the Buddahs and fire as quickly as
possible, without letting them
knock Joe over. Use your Ninja
Magic to soften them up and just
keep firing as fast as possible!
Metal face — beyond the bud¬
dahs is a face on the wall. The
Only way to harm it is to keep
hitting it on the forehead with
shuriken. Be careful though. As
soon as the first star hits its
forehead it will start to move up
and down and shoot fireballs at
Joe, The fireballs alternate bounc-
ing high then low, so you need to
duck and jump in order to avoid
them while you fire at the fore¬
head.
Mission 4 Bone men — these
skeletons rise up from the floor
and throw lethal bones. Jump
over the bones and throw shu¬
riken at them to kill them.
Hunchback creatures — these
chaps jump towards Joe and
bump into him. They don't actu¬
ally harm Joe themselves but
while they are knocking him over
he will be vulnerable to attack by
other baddies.
Lobster (mission four baddie) —
the lobster is a big sword wielding
samuri dressed in armour. To kill
him jump in the air and throw
shuriken at the top of his helmet.
Mission 5 Monk — this guy ap¬
pears with a staff which he twirls
around as he advances on Joe.
Crouch down and when the Monk
closes in kick him.
Nakahama — he Is Joe's old
mentor who turned to evil and is
now the head of the terrorist
organisation, Joe must defeat
him throe times before he actu¬
ally dies, Nakahama will run to¬
wards you very quickly and try to
kick or punch Joe. Throw stars at
him as quickly as possible and
then run away. As he jumps over
you reverse direction and run
away before starting to throw
stars at him again.
Bards Tale 1 — to get into Man-
gars Tower go to the sewers level
3 and go to 16N 17E where you
will find stairs up.
Buy the clue book — 5 from
Customer Services, 0753 46465.
Archon Collection — if you are
playing the fight side stay on the
white squares and vice versa for
the dark side as you will be more
powerful.
Skate Or Die — in the Jam beating
Lester to a pulp is more important
than setting a good time.
Arctic Fox — knock out the sen¬
sors as quickly as possible.
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Amstrati User January 1996
Find your way
around Total
Eclipse anc
i
Dizzy 1
1 with
a 1
ittle Kelp from
our diagrams.
Total Eclipse
1, Doors directly touching the
rooms on the map are at the
ground floor of the room. Those
connected to the room by a Jine
are raised above floor level.
All doors have a solid platform
in front of them but raised doors
do not necessarily have a stair¬
way up to them.
Some stairways are not initially
visible and must be formed by
shooting switches,
2, I could only find seven Ankhs
and 5 of these are required to get
into the final chamber.
There is no need to lose an
Ankh before 'Fharaohs-A' in Map
3, All rooms before this can be
accessed without using an Ankh,
3, The rooms are named using
one name for a group of rooms
and rooms within the group are
distinguished by an alphabetical
series. I abbreviated the first
name to its initial. The numbers
included in the rooms are the
height of the room in cubits above
sea level.
Dizzy II, a handy map
4. I split the map into 3 parts, lt r s
not a natural Split but I found it
most convenient. Forgive any
lack of clarity in the map. Mapping
a 3-D pyramid in 2-D is not easy
5. Not all stairs have a bottom
step. This means you can go
down them but not up again.
Some doors can only be opened
from one-side. For this reason
you must open the door in the
chamber at the back of the py¬
ramid, to successfully complete
the game.
6. Except for the mummy in
'HorakHty-G r you can't destroy
the dart firing traps so just brave
them. You can go around the
pressure pad by shooting the wall
in 'Khepresh-E r r
Amstrad User January 1930
Page
Christmas greetings, ye fellow
hackers. Once more it -is the
season of goodwill to all men, and
real bad news if you look like a
rnince pie. But fear not, for this
month- there are many goodies,
and The odd map, with which to
stuff your Christmas stocking.
Yes, ye will be well and truly
stuffed.
If you remember, I put out a
request fast year for some of
"Mighty" Joe Garner's efforts.
Well, he sent them in, they were
lost, found, subject to public in¬
quiry, buried in a peat bog and
have now been sent in again.
The bad news is that some of
them won t load on my 4B4, so
the world will have to live over
Christmas without a "best score'
feature and high score tables for
Storm, Still, we are able to bring
you the Infinite energy mega-
poke for it, and it looks like this:
SEE FIG 1 BELOW
Mighty Joe's luck was out this
month with the tape recorder, as
his Aliens pokette and boul-
derdash dasher were similarly ex¬
creted upon, refusing to load des¬
pite re-aligning the tape deck,
scrubbing the heads {of the tape
deck!) with surgical spirit, and
invocations to the Great God
Glitch. The Sorcery pokeykins re¬
mained relatively unscathed,
though from the look of it, Mighty
Joo has been hacking the mes¬
sages again f Still, see for yourself
what he r s done to it:
SEE FIG 2 PGE 39
Note to all those wonderful
people sending stuff in: Try to
keep the lines narrow so that
they'll all fit in one column in the
magazine huh? Joe's pokes are
great, but he has a tendency to
only stop putting data on the line
when his 464 beeps at him, and I
have to split 'em up,
Sorcery — also got " hexed" by
Joe, with less shmnanagins on
the high score front. This Is for
disc versions only, which is not
surprising really, as there is no
tape version:
SEE FIG 3 PGE 40
This is rapidly in danger of be¬
coming the "Mighty Joe Strikes
Again" show, especially with the
fast approaching disc poke for
Monty on the Run , which has
nothing to do with food poi¬
soning. The pokette *n question
gives you infinite lives, but just to
make sure you have to do some¬
thing, you still have to collect the
gasmask, passport, jetpack, rope,
and mm (obviously the Christmas
spirit is that) in order to complete,
Yur ’tiz:
_ SEE FIG 4 PGE 40 _
1 REM'STORM poke V2.0 copyright J.P,Corner (The Mighty Joe)
2 REM' Indent ructabil ity (infinite health) for both players
9 a^fi.45
10 READ b$;IF b$="end" THEN GOTO 15
11 POKE a, VAL( t :c : c t VAM +b£) : GOTO Iti
12 DATA 3e,ff,ed,6b,be,Q6,00,21,00,1 ,U
13 DATA 00,i-0,L-d,?7,bo,2a,42,0,cd, 03,be
1 4 DAT A c d , 7 a ,bc,c9,efid
15 POKE U0D,ASC( "A" I
2D DATA 21,cC,35,22, 42, DO,od,45
21 DATA DO,21,74,?d,22,42,00,ed
22 DATA 45,00,21,DO,55,22,42,00
23 DATA cd,45,00,21,70,01,22,04
24 DATA 02,00,^,4 5,00,21,^4,14
25 DATA 3e, If,77,23,3e,21,77,23
26 DATA 3@,ff,77,23,3e,ff,77,23
27 DATA 21,29,18,3e,3f, 77,.23,3ft
28 DATA 21,77,23,3e,ff,77,23,3e
29 DATA ff,77,23,£3,70,01,end
31 s = &62
32 READ bS=*emJ" THEM GOTO 50
33 POKE a,VAL( ia-a + 1 ?c = c«VAU > eGOTO 32
50 REM
60 POKE 1100,ASCI"A")
1000 IF cOBBOl THEN PRINT "BY MY GREAT POKERS I'VE DETECTED AW
ERROR IK THE DATA" ELBE CALL &6 2
FIG 1
Vyk Olliver has
compiled a giant
edition of the
Hairy Hacker’s
Haunt to help you
beat those baddies.
So put down that
mince pie and get
poking.
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Amstrad User January 1998
Nethermore!
Next in line for "the treatment"
is Hewson's diamond-'em-up Ne¬
therworld, The pokey kins below
offers infinite lives, wall bashers,
demon bashers, and time. The
clock seems to have some form
of zombie factor in it, and the last
digit refuses to lie down and die,
but this doesn't stop the poke
from working :
SEE FIG 5 PAGE 41
Well, that about wraps it up for
the Mighty Joe for this month.
Our contribution to the J. Garner
Christmas Present fund will be
forthcoming, though possibly ar¬
riving after Christmas.
Another frequent name in this
column is John "Hackman” Gir-
vin from Belfast. Well his type-
writer has died, and he hasn't got
a printer. More things like this
don't stop a real hacker from
getting his stuff through, and I
hope IV© read his handwriting
correctly. His effort is a Mega¬
poke cassette, arriving just in
time for the bumper Christmas
edition. Now, you'll definitely
have seen some of these pokeh
Les before, but that was probably
before you bought the game, and
now you can't find the right ACU
can you? See. I am a thoughtful
soul when the fancy takes me.
John's collection ranges from
the bog-standard infinite life
pokette, to a not-quite-so- bog-
standard invulnerability to eating
toilets. Alt his own work too,
First in line for a de-coke, full
tune and rebore is Afterburner. Alt
you keen top-gunners now get
bolt-on goodies like infinite lives
and missiles. The best bit though
is the part that makes your F-14
completely missile-proof. Who
needs a stealth bomber with all
that lot?
SEE FIG 6 PGE 41
And now a pokeykins to make
Hasten a little fairer (a rastan-
fairian?}. The big guy with the
natty fur boots gets even more
1 REM 1 infinite energy for sorcery* copyright 1967
(THE MIGHTY JOE)
2 REM' don't wr>rry about your eneryy doing funny
won't die
J.P.GARNER
things- you
3 REM r always linfes 1 (JO-999 may be hissed out but do put in
line 1000
10 CLS
20 DATA 06,0b,II,00,cO,21,40,01
21 DATA cd,7?,he,21,4u,01,cd,83
22 DATA be,ud,7a,be,3e,lfi,32,06
23 DATA Qb,3e,a7 r 21, £<5, Ob,77,23 *
24 DATA 77,21,90,10,77,23,77,21
25 DATA 56,16,77,23,77,e3,40,0,end
40 a-470
50 READ b$: IF b$="end" THEM GOTO 7 0
GO POKE d, VALC'fi" h b$ ) = a + I ;c=C+VAU "£ N *b5) : GOTO 50
70 a$ = "SORCERY * &TJJT'
60 FOR a = 1 TO LENfaSHPOKE &13F+a,ASCIMIDS(a$,a,1M:NEXT
9G POKE 440,403;POKE £41 r 44A:POKE 442,1
100 DATA 11, eB , lb, 21,00,cS ,cdj, 5e
101 DATA 00,11,10,Id,21 r 00,dfi,cd
1Q2 DATA 5e,00,21,00,dD,11,20,05
103 DATA cd,5e „00,c3,4a,01 r 7e,a7
104 DATA e8,12,13,23,e3,5e,00,cud
l10 a-440
120 READ bS:IF b$= Vnd" THEM GOTO 150
130 POKE a , VAL { "4 " ; t -1 1 VAL ( "k " 1 1j$ )
140 a “a -1:GOTO 12 0
20,20,20,20,20,20,20,20
20,20,20,20,20,20,20,20
20,20,20,49,41,43,4B,45
44,20,42,59,20,54,40,45
20.40.49.47.48.54.59.20
4A,4F.45,21,20,20,20,20
20.54.46.45.20.40.49.47
48,54,59,20,4A,4F.45.20
53.54.52.49.48.45.53.20
41,47,41,49,4E,21,20,20
20,20,4E,4F,57,20,46,4F
52.20.41.20.53.40.49.47
49,54,20,41,4C,54,45,52
41,54,49,4F,4E,20,20,20
59,4F,55,20,41,52,45,20
4D,49,47,48,54,59,20,4A
4E,45,20,43,41,4E,20,59
158 4F,55,end
160 a-&C8Q0
161 READ bSilF bS-VruT THEM GOTO 170
162 POKE a VAL(*&“+b$):c=c+VAL(”4 N ^b$):a=a + liGOTO 161
165 DATA 2E,2E,2E,54,48,45,20,4D
166 DATA 49,47,48,54,59,20,4A,4F
167 DATA 45,2E,2E,2E,2E,99,99,99
168 DATA 2E,2E,2E,2£,53,54,52,49
169 DATA 4B,45,53,20,41,47 r 41 r 49
170 DATA 4E,2E,2E,2E,2E,99,99,98
171 DATA 4A,4F,45,2E,2E,2E,2E,2E
172 DATA 2E r 2E,2E,2E,2E,2E,2E,2E
173 DATA 2E,2£,2E,2E,2E,1jI,1,44
174 DATA 41,56,45,20,54,48,45,20
175 DATA 47,4F,4F,44,2E,2E,2E,2E
176 DATA 2E,2E,2E,0,end
IB0 U--5.D800
190 READ b^Vrid’' THEN 1 GOTO 1000
141 DATA
142 DATA
143 DATA
144 DATA
145 DATA
146 DATA
147 DATA
148 DATA
149 DATA
150 DATA
151 DATA
152 DATA
153 DATA
154 DATA
155 DATA
156 DATA
157 DATA
Fiez
macho with infinite lives and in¬
vulnerability to everything short
of pulling the plug out. This is on
the Taito coin-op version mind
you, so don't whinge at me if it
doesn't work on any others. John
did this one in 1 hour 1 8 minutes!
SEE FIG 7 PGE 41
Lightening the burden in Fire¬
bird's Enlightenment (called
Druid II by those in the know) is
this bijou-pokette. Hasrinaxx gets
help bashing Acamantor and the
Demon Princess (they're the bad¬
dies. not something to do with a
bad copy of "Batdance") by way
of mysterious infinite energies.
You're OK, but your golem or
elemental can still have a real
rough time to the point of snuffing
it. so be careful out there:
SEE FIG 8 PGE 41
Savaged Again
We had this one a couple of
months ago by Michael Gledhill,
John's version hacks all three
levels, sussing out which level it's
going to hack as it goes. Clever
Pagei
Amstrad User January f 990
stuffs eh? Just run the pokette
with your game in the tape deck,
and Robert's yer father's brother,
or something like that.
Level one gets infinite lives,
invulnerability to small greeblies,
and total greeblie removal as its
options. Level two gets Infinite
lives and invulnerability. Level
three "only" gets infinite lives.
SEE FIG S PAGE 41
Last month, we turned Harri&r
Attack into a far happier, harrier,
and this month, Joe's last pokette
(disc) puka. copyright 19 00 J.P,Camer (The
POKE
POKE
DATA
1 REM' r ij o r y +
Mighty Joe)
3 REM 1 line's 100-160 can h t* hissed out*
1 REM 1 insert sorcery* disc and run this
10 MEMORY £7FFF:L0AD "'soreeryp", &8000
30 POKE £0013,fill:P0KE 40 015,&6 0iPOKE &7F96,£C9 i CALL 4 0000
30 POKE 48013,410 t POKE 48015 ,&F8 : POKE 40010 r £.85 : CALL 6,0000
40063,4C9;CALL 40010
£4067,£48:POKE 44068,441
af,32,67,70,32,d9,85,32,31,86,c3,fl,?D
FOR a-44149 TO 44154:READ
lF *b$) :c = c?+PEEKfd ) ;NEXT
1,48,0,11,26,95,21,70,41,ed r bo,c3,Q,70
FOR a = £ 415 2 TO &4l5F;R£AD
+ h$): c-C + PEEK(a 3:ME XT
54,46,45,2e, 4(3,49,47,48,54,59,2e,4a
4f , 45, 2e, 2e,2*,2e,2e. 2e,2<?,99,99,99
43,52,41,49,47,2 k, 4J,42,52,49,45,4c
2u ,3e,2e,2e,2e,2e,2e,2 k, 2e,99,99,98
4 4,41,56,45, 2e, 54,48,45,2*,4?,4T, 4£
40
50
60
70
a;VALt "
100 DATA
110
a,VAL("4"
120 DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
b? t POKE
bS tPOKE
125
130
135
1 40
145
150
44,2c
FOR
99 , 99,97
4.4107: READ
b$:POKE
,2e,2e,2 k, 2e, 2e , 2e
a-£4l?Q TO
a,VAL(): c -c PEEK(a 3:NEXT
1GQ FOR a =6,4148 TO &42Q0i PRINT HESS I a ) , HEX$ t PEEK (<* M :KEXT : END
1 000 IF c-1300 OR C = 7666 THEN CALL £4000 ELSE MODE 2:PRINT "check
the data before- you cast any aptHs 3"
is a make-Space-Harrier-less-
hazardous hack. It gives you in¬
finite lives, and makes you totally
indistru eta bubble:
SEE FIG 10 PGE 42
For all that lot, John'II have to
make do with the Extra Special
Christmas Hack of the Month as I
can't award medals. Watch the
old postie access hole, John!
Christmas at The Hackery
would not be complete without
some form of pokette from Matt
Cawley. There's nothing like a
good poke from Matt, and this
one is nothing like . „ .
Seriously though, this is the
disc version of the Cybernord II
pokette. Don't try running it on a
tape version, 'cos it won't work if
you do. Use John's poke (a page
or so back).
SEE FIG 11 PGE 42
By the way Matt, you put
"POKE addr r byte" in on lines 30
FI© 3
THE RUN, if »f. livet
fopy rig] it
0 ;vc 1 ud l- d
190 8 J.r.GjniLi
40
50
60
62
65
7 0
75
60
90
too
101
102
103
104
i:d
£7000: FOR J T0
, &70E2
15:INK At 0;NEXT:MODE 0:LOAD
LA 7
.11,80,5,21,40,1,cd,77,bi
i. l d , G 3. be , c d, 7 j , bu , c 3,0, <
21
1 , end
1 THEN GOTO 80
a -j +1:c-e+PEEK(a-13:GOTO
70
1 REM f MONTY ON
The Miyhti Jwl
2 REM f lines 10Q-999 inclusive can bo
1 REM h [jut In nonly disc and run this,
I 0 MODE l
15 OPENOUT h V
20 MEMORY
"motrede ► sbC i r £C0DO
3 0 LOAD “ruutrded.sbf
CLOSEOUT
POKE £ DC 3 7
DATA 06,..
DATA 00,5
a = £ 7 Q
READ bS : IF LS^end
POKE a ,VAL( H £ H 4 bS >
.aS’^motrdata . nbf "
FOR a-1 TO LEX 1 (a$3:POKE £ 13 F-a,ASC(MIDS{a?,a,1)):NEXT
DATA 4D,49,47 r 48„54,59,2G,4A
4F,45,44,41,56,45,20,54
30,47,20,20,43,52,41,49
47,20,20,20,20,20,4E,49
4b,49,20,20,20,20,20,20
a-&7D75 TO £7075*79 STEP
b*a,VAU H f^S) ;c«c+PEEKU-b) ’NEXT
130 DATA 20,20,20,20,20,40,41,43
131 DATA ,4h,45,44,20,42,59,20,20
132 DATA 20,20,20,20,0D,62,20,20
133 DATA 20,54,48,45,20,40,49.47
134 DATA 40,54,59,20,4A,4E,45
135 DATA 20,23,00,05,20,20,20
136 DATA 20,46,41,52,44,20,20
55,43,48,20,20,20,20
DD,88,4B,52,45, 4D ,4C , 49
4E,20,20,20,43,4F,43,4B
20.20,20,55,50,53
FOR a-1 TO
£ 7DOF-a,VAL<“V+b$ ):c*c-PEEK<£7D0F*a)
1 00 0 IF CO 9464 AND c<>2370 THEN INK
"Monty won't, be running until you've
any key”: CALL £BB1B:LIST ELSE CALL 6.70
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
FOR
20:FOR b^O
NEXT
TO 9:READ a$:POKE
137
138
139
140
160
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
■ 20
20
4C
20
86:READ b$:POKE
NEXT
0,1: INK 1,26:MODE 2:PRINT
checked the data,,,. Press
FIG 4
and 40. Presumably some form of
backup. Still, the rest of the poke
is excellent, and instructions are
built in r Don't forget folks, save
the poke {preferably NOT on the
Cybernoid II disc) before you run
it.
The bit on fine 70 saying CALL
&6B1S calls the ROM routine to
wait for a key. it J s much simpler
than 'WHILE IN KEYS-
":WEND J , as long as you get:
the numbers right. Rewards for
effort should have gone last
month.
Lastly, as it's Christmas, I'll
spare you the joke about the most
unreliable part of a 464 being the
nut that holds on the joystick.
Instead, have a computerised
Christmas card from us lot:
SEE FIG 12 PGE 42
Love 'n' stuff, Vax, Suz &. Kate..
Pago 49
Amstrad User January 1990
1 'NETHERWORLD h^cks
2 'Hi John C i r v i n
3 'March 19S9
4 ' I beat you. Lu it, Jeniny l
5 '
10 MODE 0:OP£NOUT"D*:MEMOftV &3F&F
30 CLOSEOUT : LOAD" 1 neL lit>rw + bin" , &3FC0
30 POKE 4415B,04:POKE 4415C,Q
40 MODE 1:CALL &DC02
SO INPUT "Start with how many lives I Q~255 ) |f ; Ii% r *a
00 RESTORE - addr 1 440
70 READ b y te$
00 TF byteS^-WURLDE" THEN GOTO 130
90 tF byteS = 41 ** n THEN by teS=HEK$ £1 ives, 2)
1Q& POKE addr ,-VAH "&" *byteS \
11 0 a dd r - a dd r + 1
12 0 GOTO 7 C 1
130 CALL 43FC0
140 1
150 '*«*■ LEAVE 170 IN * - *
16D ’
170 DATA af
100 'Infinite live*
190 DATA 32,1,1.27
200 1 Infinite wal] bashers
210 DATA 32,74,21
220 1 In £ ini lie (lemon by&ljorfei
230 DATA 22,2ft,2:
240 p Inf iniltf time
250 Data 32 , b 2 , 04 r 3e r c 3 r 32 , bG , 6 4
260 r
270 1 *** LEAVE 290-330 IN ***
2S0 1
2 90 DATA, 3e,* *,32,0£,2 9 r a4 r 4B,4c
300 DATA 4G,<J3,99,c3,OC,Ql
310 DATA W0RLT2E
: IG 5
1 f AFTERBURNER hacks
2 7 By John Girvin
3 T April 1989
4 ’
10 MODE 1:MEMORY &99C4
20 LOAD ” :a£terbnr%&99C5
30 RESTORE :adclr-&BE0O
40 READ byteS
50 IE byte$="AFTERBURNER” THEM GOTO 90
6 0 POKE add r , VAL (" t" + by L e $ >
70 addr-addr+1
00 GOTO 40
90 CALL &BE80
100 '*** LEAVE 110-180 IK ***
110 DATA 3e f e3,2l,6e,be,32,I6,bd
120 DATA 22,17,bd,c3,c5,99,cd,37
130 DATA bd,21,00,00,32,4b,*6,21
140 DATA aO, be,22,4e f a6 ,c3,08,a 6
150 DATA dd,21,b8,aS,ll,ab,00,cd
160 DATA 47,a8,21,c0,be ( 22,6l,*9
170 DATA c3,e2,a8,dd r cb,07 r ae,c3
180 DATA 9£,21,3e,32,32,a4,47,c9
190 'Infinite lives
200 DATA'21,00,00,22,a7,20,22,a8
210 DATA 20
220 'Infinite missiles
230 DATA 21,ba,be,11,63,27,01,06
240 DATA 0 0,ed,bO
250 "Invulnerability
260 DATA 21,b3,be,11,24,20,01,07
270 DATA 00,ed,b0
280 '*** LEAVE 290-300 IN ***
290 DATA a4,48,40,46,04,89^3,00
300 DATA 46,AFTERBURNER
FIG 6
1 ’RASTAN hacks
2 r By John Girvin
3 1 July 1989
4 T
10 MODE 1:MEMORY £9 935
20 LOAD"Irastan",69936
30 RESTOREiaddr-&B£8Q
40 READ byte$
50 IF byte $== "RASTAN” THEN GOTO 90
60 POKE addr,VAM"& M +byte$>
70 addr-addr+1
80 GOTO 40
90 CALL &BE80
100 ’*** LEAVE 110-170 IN ***
110 DATA 3e,c3,2l f 0e,be,32,16,bd
120 DATA 22,17 r bd,c3,36,99,cd,37
130 DATA bd,21,00,00,22,43,a5,21
140 DATA a0,be,22,46 r a5,c3,08,a5
150 DATA dd,21,bl,a7,ll,00 # 01,cd
160 DATA 40,a7,21jrb3 f be F 22,5a,a8
170 DATA c3,db,a7
180 'Infinite lives
190 DATA af,32,63,13,32,fO,23
200 'Invulnerability
210 DATA a£,32,5b,13,3e,a7,32,cf
770 DATA 73
230 '*** LEAVE 240*-250 IN ***
240 DATA a4,48,4c,46,07,89,c3,22
250 DATA 40,RASTAN
FIST
1 T
ENLIGHTENMENT (DRUID II)
hack
2 1
by John Girvin
3 1
A P
December 1980
10
MEMORY &3DFF
20
MODE
1
30
LOAD"
lenlightl"
40
addr =
E.BE00
50
READ
byteS
60
IF bytes$="ORB” THEN CALL &BE00
70
POKE
addr,VAL("&"+byteS)
80
addr =
addr+1
90
GOTO
5 0
100
r
110
* * * *
LEAVE ALL LINES IN
* * *
120
T
130
DATA
cd,4c,3f,2a,39,00,
22,22
140
DATA
be,f3,21,14,be,22,
39,00
150
DATA
fb,c3,00,3e,f5,c5,
e5,06
160
DATA
f6,ed,78 r b7,28,06,
el ,cl
170
DATA
f1,c 3,4 a,47 , f3,2a,
22,be
180
DATA
22,39,00,21,33,be,
22,99
190
DATA
01,18,eb,21,2d,08,
11,86
200
DATA
9b,01,97,74,ed,b8,
21,00
210
DATA
00,af,32,85,31,22,
86,31
220
DATA
32,7a,32,32,a2,34,
32, fe
230
DATA
5 Q , e 3,6 0,5d,0 c , 8 8,
48,4c
240
DATA
46,ORB
FIGS
Amstrad User January 1$90
Pag**
1 1
2 1
3 1
4 '
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
110
120
130
140
150
160
170
180
SAVAGE hacks Call
By John Girvin
May 1989
MEMORY &9FFF'; LOAD
POKE "41186,32: POKE
1ev = PEEK(&A0ED)- 48
OK lev GOSUB 60,70
RESTORE 430:GOSUB
RESTORE 130:GOS^B
RESTORE 240:GOSUB
RESTORE 340:GOSUB
READ byte$
IF byte$="SAVAGE"
POKE addr,VAL(
addr=addr+l:GOTO
levels)
11 1 \&AOO0
41187,161
:addr=&A120
r 8 0
90:CALL &A00O
90:RETURN
90:RETURN
90:RETURN
THEN RETURN
+byte$}
90
f *** LEVEL 1 CHEATS ***
i
'Infinite lives
DATA 3e,18,32,ce,03
'Invulnerable to small monsters
190
DATA
af, 32,18,08
200
T Remove small monsters
210
DATA
3e,c9,32,61,fe
220
1 Art *
LEAVE 230 IN ***
230
DATA
SAVAGE
240
1
250
1 rt rt *
LEVEL 2 CHEATS ***
260
f
270
'Infinite lives
200
DATA
af,32,63 f 0d f 30,0 3,32,
290
DATA
Od
300
'Invulnerability
310
DATA
3e p c3,-32,3a, Od
320
i * * *
LEAVE 330 IN ***
330
DATA
SAVAGE
340
i
350
i * * *
LEVEL 3 CHEATS ***
360
1
370
'Infinite lives
330
DATA
3e,a7,32,2a,e7,3e,c3,
390
DATA
2e, e7
400
T rt * *
LEAVE 410 IN ***
410
DATA
SAVAGE
420
t
430
'Art*
LEAVE 440 IK ***
440
DATA
c3,00,01,SAVAGE
FIG 9
1
2
3
4
5
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
90
iji.
1 S|jacr& Harrier Tape Poke*by J.Garner,
Rewind to last file on tape
T Then run. Couldn't be bothered to do
‘i;iy name on this one. So type it all
OPENOUT "a
MEMORY 949
LOAD 11 ! 1,1 ,950
POKE &D74,&A7
POKE &D4D r &3C:POKE &D4E,&32: POKE £D4F,&C8
POKE 0,&5:POKE &D51,&C3:POKE &D52,£CD
POKE &D53,S5
CALL 950
FIG 10
1 1 Cybernoid II Idiitfr
2 ’by MaLt Cawley
10 J£1 <Jj'b£.&FQD
20 READ byteS:IF bytcS«"MOftfiISS’ TWO $0
3* byte*VAL( "f + byte?}
40 POKE addr.byte
50 addr-addr♦1:GOTO 20
$D MODE 2
7D PRIST 'Insert tybernoid II into drive A.ar.d any
key.':CALL &5HX0
aa LOADMi■c*:CALL ifiFOO
9(1 ‘ *»* leav* ***
100 DATA 21,OS.BP,22,32.AS
110 DATA CD,10,M
120 T -■* pokes “*
125 ’ infinite live*
UO DATA AT, J2,66, 2B
125 ‘infinite ammo
140 DATA AF,S2,2F,1G
14 5 * i rjn j n i ty
150 DATA 3E f C9,3?,D6,2A
1S5 + nothing itationary fire*
160 DATA 3E,CJ,52,3F,25
lfi S " faet game
170 BATA AF,32,44,01
175 ‘ no pirate*
l&D DATA 3E P C9,iI,AA,33
105 ’ no bouncing fehinsie* Ihoria!
ISO DATA 3C.C9.32,43,20
1 no bouncing thingiea (vert!
200 DATA" 3E.C9,32,43,20
20 5 1 no Ci t-t lepiddlera
310 &ATA 3£,C9,32,EA,2D
215 ‘ t-SL.rn;iny tombs last forever
220 DATA «,C0,J2,4&,1A
225 " rocket* do not fire
230 DATA 3E,C9,32.&C,34
3J5 1 rocket* diaappesr inatead of firing
240 DATA 3E.C9,32,BE,1}
250 * *** leeve *»*
260 DATA C3,43,00,43,72,69
270 DATA fiD,70,20,79.6F,75
2A0 DATA 72,JQ,66,61,69,72
290 DATA 20,74,6F,64,61,79
300 DATA 2E r MQPFISSEV
FIG 11
100 INK 0,0: PEN" 1: PAPER 0:CLSrMQDE 0
lid INK 5,20:PRINT CHRS*23);CHR&(U;
120 BORDER 0: PRINT CHR$(22>;CHR$E1 );
130 TAG
140 y=35Q
150 READ a$
160 IF a$ -"THEN 470
170 x = f 2&-LENUS) t ‘16
ISO MOVE x,y
190 FOR i-1 TO LFN(a$ >
200 IE RND ' 0.5 THEN 240
210 oy-RND* 400
220 IF RND^O.5 THEN ox = 0 ELSE o.n^ 64D
230 GOTO 260
240 ox=RND* 640
250 IF RND>0.5 THEN oy-0 ELSE oy = 400
260 b$-MIDSUS r i,13
270 IF b$=" H THEN 370
230 PLOT -1G,-10,HND*13+1
290 REM This is where chars fly...
300 FOR j‘-l TO 0 STEP -0.1
310 MOVE ox* j) ,oy* j*yMl-j )
320 PRINT b$;
33 0 MOVE on* jn* < 1 - j > ,oy* jty* (1-j i
340 PRINT b $i
350 NEXT j
360 PEN 2:MOVE x,y:PRINT HID$(a$,i f U;$ PEN 1 .
370 x=x-32
380 NEXT' i
390 y =y-24
400 GOTO 150
410 DATA n ye Nerrie Christmas”
4 20 DATA "Fron Vax, Sui r Kate”
430 DATA "Bfiinu, Othello and”
44 0 DATA "all the animals"’
450 DATA "(arid staff) at ACU ,r
460 DATA *
470 REM The snowflakes*.,
480 x-INT(RND*1G0J*4-1
490 y = 399
500 PLOT x,y r 4
510 y = y-2:IF y<200 THEN 480
520 IF TESTUpyleO THEN PLOT u, y+2,4:GOTO 500
530 IF RND>0 t 5 THEN PLOT *,y-2,4;GOTO 500
540 GOTO 480
FIG 12
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Amstrad User January 1990
N ew York, New York, so
good they blew it up.
Yes, tins is Manhattan
in the year 2019, and some¬
body has just dropped the
big one. There’s no longer a
housing problem in the Big
Apple as there's no longer
any houses* Or people* A few
poor souls still survive, al¬
though with the radiation
levels rising by the minute,
planet Earth and everybody
on her is doomed, including
the post-apocalyptic hero of
the asphalt jungle — Jona¬
than Rogers, What an in¬
spired name. But wait, there
is a chance, a slim one, mind +
and very risky* Only a fool or
a madman would attempt it.
If our hero can reach the HQ
of the psvcopathic Professor
Mcjernn, overcome its de-
meltdown all the way to
China, as you frantically try
to avoid the uniformed
guardians of Professor
Mcjerrin’s scientific com¬
plex, whilst at the same time
exchanging fire with your
newly aquired FX-Machine
Gun*
Wardroids hound you
with aerial bombardment.
fences and take control of
the XV-238 rocketship, then
he can escape to the safety
of the outer colonies. W r ho
said the 'IT movie was dead?
This is the giim scenario
to After tire War, a horizon¬
tally scrolling* heavy-on-
the-recoil game from those
combat junkies at Dinamic*
The game begins with you
controlling Jungle’ Rogers
as he fights his way across
the Manhattan wastelands,
facing up to Radio Gladia¬
tors who try to mug him
(some habits die hard in
New York) or blow him up
with sticks of dynamite. The
usual assortment of kicks,
punches, elbows and flying
kicks are at your disposal,
and once you get the hang of
it biffing up a gang of
radioactive ruffians is no
more demanding than push¬
ing that funny little red but¬
ton * * . oops, butter fingers *
There is also a time limit
in phase one, for the longer
Yet another post-apocalyptic scenario
as you seek out evil Prof Mcjerrin in
this beat-em-up with big sprites.
it takes you to dispose of
your opponents, the more
radiation you receive, and
when you've completely
irradiated the game ends*
If phase one is completed
within the time limit, the
action threshold increases
to critical as Magnum-
wielding punks try’ to blow
you away, attacking simul¬
taneously, without a four
minute warning, from both
front and rear. Watch out
also for more marauding
Radio Gladiators and your
own depleted energy’ levels.
Phase three is a joystick
and periodically, hulking
great bi-pedal robots bear
down to unleash maximum
overkill. Yes, things get
pretty hectic, and if you sur¬
vive , as with the two pre¬
vious phases of the game,
you have to defeat the obli¬
gatory end-of-level nasty.
This gains you access to the
XV-238 t the last freedom
rocketship out of Nowhere
City.
Despite a plot as exciting
as a nuclear winter. After-
the-War is a fast-paced,
enjoyable game. The gra¬
phics were particularly good
for an Amstrad version,
making use of large, well
defined sprites and colouful
backgrounds of devastated
Manhattan landmarks.
After the War is a difficult
game to master (achieving
the critical flying drop kick
was almost more than I
could manage) and it should
keep you and your family in
tfie fall-out shelter easily oc¬
cupied until the all-clear
sounds.
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xielies using objects that are
found along the way. With
the successful completion of
the first stage, Alan Chance,
out trusty hero, has the
strength and experience to
tackle the outside world.
Stage two, the second
day, involves a house in the
village which in turn brings
certain complications to our
stu bble-face d detective.
The ghost of Luke, the
ruffian that Chance acciden¬
tally killed, bright lights
from cars and buildings and
heavy items are just some of
the waiting obstacles the old
house holds. The aim is to
gather clues from the old
hideout and scene of Chan¬
ce's death in an attempt to
rectify the inexcusable posi¬
tion in which he has found
himself. To discover the
location of the gangsters
new abode is also high on
the list, of things to do,
The third stage/day be¬
gins with two of the gang¬
sters forcing a priest to
exorcise Chance’s grave
with holy water and mouth¬
fuls of mumbo jumbo. By
moving quickly and care¬
fully, Chance can avoid the
exorcism and eventually fo¬
llow the gangsters by get¬
ting into their van as they
drive from the graveyard.
There is however, no need
for alarm as being a ghost
means that Chance is not
subject to the tortuous dis¬
comfort of a long journey in
the back of a stranger’s van.
What is to be done?
Where is there to turn and
what can you do to stop the
gangsters and make them
pay? These are all questions
that can only be answered
by using the detective skills
and organic intuition of Alan
Chance or the cheat/hint
sheet that is provided.
The game disc prorides
the graphics program on the
reverse side. The graphics
are clear and well drawn
although at times a little
repetitive. One has to ac¬
count though, for the limita¬
tions of the CPC and not
expect graphics of a more
diverse and powerful
quality.
This is well recommen¬
ded. My angst has been
eased by the karma the
game provided and I have
now found my Nirvana, I
hope you find yours. Fare¬
well 'til next month,
Basil Bread
A cold and frosty-brea-
thed graveyard called
me to my misty sense¬
lessness. I was weightless.
Drifting, Trapped in another
social circle where men
were ghosts and women
were ghosts too, and earthly
problems were all too real
for a brain that didn’t exist.
My only option was the CFG.
A quiet, unassuming crea¬
ture which has the ability to
run my essential medi¬
cine . . . Scapeghost! Scape-
ghost, from Level 9 Adven¬
tures, offers the willing ad¬
venturer a chilling romp
through acres of nostalgic
turf. Alan Chance, a one¬
time, over-sized, trilby
headed, undercover de¬
tective, witnesses his own
funeral and realises from the
careless talk of his so-called
kapegbost
An adventure game based on a world
of ghosts and graveyards.
mourners that he is being
falsely blamed for his own
death. The pain. Needle-
sharp and gallow-frenzied,
Bewildering bursts of prob¬
ing anxiety. The frustration
of being a rooky spook be¬
comes second nature to the
player of Scapeghost. It is
the ghost’s destiny to clear
his name, gain revenge and
trackdown the gangsters'
new hideout. Alan Chance
has just three ghostly days.
For those who are familiar
with adventure games, the
format is not new. For those
who have never entered an
adventure world, commands
are written onto the screen
and the answers and ensu¬
ing situations are relayed
before your eyes by the
computer. The hrst stage of
the game is in the graveyard,
immediately following the
burial of Alan Chance. The
swanky detective, weak
from a lack of substance,
drifts about the place until
darkness when he encoun¬
ters the ghost of joe Danby,
the once merry landlord of
The Pig and Whistle. Joe
familiarises Alan with the
graveyard (that is if you fo¬
lio w r him) and introduces a
number of the ghostly
neighbours. Each neighbour
seems to have a problem.
The Willmots.. . mousetrap-
ped in marriage, to have and
to hold onto their worldly
bitterness and constant bi¬
ckering, reunited in the
world of spirits. Colonel Ry-
croft, troubled in uniform,
despairing at the noise and
arrogance of the youth-of-
today. Tormented by the
whisky-swigging, vociferous
yobhishness of the local
vandals, the Colonel needs
your help, as do all the other
ghosts.
By continually picking up,
increasingly large items,
Alan's spiritual powers de¬
velop and enable him to
solve his neighbours 1 an-
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S porting Triangles might
sound like a menage a
trois at a golf club but
in reality it's nothing so
fruity or interesting, but
rather a quiz game based on
IT Vs answer to A Question
of Sport. Unfortunately for
1TV, Sporting Triangles was
a fairly witless and pale imit¬
ation of the BBC pro¬
gramme, and suffered ap¬
propriately.
A game based on this par¬
ticular sporting quiz show
isn’t necessarily a bad thing,
for one thing you don't have
to watch embarrassed spo¬
rts ‘personalities' wondering
why their agent got them
covered, good, very good
and unbeatable.
_ A time limit can be set on
each round, winch stops dull
and oafish players taking
forever to answer. Next we
go to the select-a-sport sec¬
tion, where each player
nominates his fave topic. Af¬
ter that, go make a cup of
tea, play a game of chess or
something while the ques¬
tions load. When the inlay
says l please be patient’ you
know you're in for a long
wait.
There are seven rounds to
the game; standard ques¬
tion, standard question, hit
for six, standard, standard,
Test your sporting knowledge in this
spin-off from the gogglebox. Well
’arry....
TIME 40
After a short w r hile the
answer is displayed and the
player is asked whether they
got it right or not. While you
have to be honest in a two or
three player game, when
playing the computer you
can cheat as much as it does.
The hit for six round con¬
sists of six attempts to
answer a question, with six
clues, and seven answers in
front of you. Naturally, the
fewer clues you use, the
more points you get.
The jigsaw picture round
works similarly with a list of
answers and a few pieces of
a jigsaw. You are asked to
identify the playing area or
object, with more pieces be¬
ing filled in if you get it
wrong. Some of the answers
border on the ridiculous
with totally obscure sports.
The quickfire round is a
case of who can get to the
buzzer first, and when the
computer is on perfect set¬
ting it's necessary to hold
your finger on the buzzer
before the question is fin¬
ished.
The graphics are all in
medium resolution which
means that you get 40 col¬
umns of easily readable text,
but only four colours which
makes everything look
rather drab, and they are
produced so that it looks as
though they were ported
straight across from the
Spectrum.
As a one player game this
is far too slow, and not ap¬
pealing enough to counter
the scant satisfaction of
beating a computer quiz op¬
ponent, Where it does be¬
come fun, and a worthwhile
purchase is if there are two
or three people playing tog¬
ether. So if you have a
couple of sports quiz loving
friends, have a patient
nature, then Sporting Tri¬
angles will help you while
away the hours until a Ques¬
tion of Sport returns to the
TV.
Mark Luckham
into this.
On the down side you do
have to wait quite some time
for the game to load and set
itself up, even on disc this
takes absolutely ages. There
can be up to three human
players, with the computer
filling in for absentees. The
computer plays on three
skill levels: average, good
and perfect. Or as we dis¬
jigsaw picture, and quickfire
question round. For the
standard rounds the players
throw a dice and follow a
marker round a triangular
board, marked with colours
to indicate subjects. The
colours correspond to the
three subjects selected by
the contestants at the be¬
ginning, there being twelve
categories.
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game. And a pretty damn
good game too. This is all
Zaxxon style solid graphic
diagonal scrolling action in
three parts: To start you
who passes through, acti¬
vates them for the next per¬
son to come a cropper in.
Driving down the log tunnel
is difficult but rather satis¬
W ith another Star
Wars anniversary
just gone what bet¬
ter time to re-release a
trilogy of games based on
the three films from George
Lucas. Last year probably,
but aside from that here’s a
golden opportunity to pay
twenty quid for three games.
Yup, as a compilation this
doesn’t exactly offer value
for money.
Off we go with Star Wars,
the original vector graphic
game with three sections.
Shoot Tie fighters in pseudo
3-D, before you are down to
the Death Star surface, and
take out giant lamp posts.
Shoot out aU the lights and
win a big vandal bonus,
before facing the section
where you always come a
cropper, the trench. Well, a
total bleeder this, and no
mistake, and no Millenium
Falcon to help out either.
But catwalks across the
trench? Yes the com-op of
the film always did take
liberties with the plot. It was
all jolly exciting on the
16-bit versions of the game,
largely thanks to the
responsive control and fast
speed. On the Amstrad it
isn't. It's like driving a
blancmange on London’s
orbital motorway.
The Empire Strikes Back
is more of the wire frame
malarky, but with far worse
game plots. Strangely
enough the control a a you go
hunting for walkers. Tie
fighters in space, followed
by asteroids is much better
than the previous game and
must mount your jet hike as
you take the part of Princess
Leia, with all her lovely out¬
fits as well. You start off
going through the forest,
A compilation based on the legendary
Star Wars films. This is your chance to
be Hans Solo.
would have made the game
quite playable. Unfortu¬
nately there is a great sense
of ‘so what' after navigating
lots of rocks, 1 mean, it isn't
exactly apocalyptic is it. I
can’t imagine anyone pun¬
ching the air with
avoiding trees, bushes, and
Imperial bikers. Be careful
not to let them get behind
you otherwise kiss goodbye
to using the hair rollers
again. The fluffy bears of
Vendor set traps along the
way, and the first person
fying.
Make it to the end of the
forest and then you go back
again, but this time in a
walker. It isn't quite as big as
it should be, but with all the
colour scrolling around it's
no wonder. Shoot the small
logs, avoid the bigger ones,
and then it's on to the Mille¬
nium Falcon storming
through the reconstructed
Death Star, for a last gasp
shoot and destroy mission.
With a race back out again as
flames lick at the hull, and
the Death Star blowing
apart across the sky, this is
more like excitement.
I wouldn't recommended
the first two games at all, but
Return of the Jedi with its
excellent graphics and crisp
gameplay is certainly worth
getting. Esther go out and
buy it on its own, or pay an
extra fiver and get two very
indifferent games as well.
Mark Luckham
excitement because they've
avoided that final rock. The
audio accompaniment to all
this is so tinny and rudimen¬
tary 7 that it may as well not
be there.
Ho hum. Part three,
Return of the Jedi, and a
completely different style of
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Page 4
Picture
this
Christmas comes
early as Auntie John
Kennedy shows
how 8K can be as
good as 16K.
H ow would you like to halve the
size of your screen files? No
fancy data compression
routines, just a guaranteed 8K screen
filer Well of course this is completely
impossible. Or is it?
If you use a lot. of digitised pictures
then perhaps you are in luck. Digitised
pictures are so full of little bits of
detail that losing half of them will still
make next to no difference. If you
don't believe me, take a look at the two
wonderful pictures of my good self.
One image takes 16K and the other
takes 8K. You should be able to tell
them apart - now hold them at arm's
length. Can you still see 8K worth of
difference? Remember, although half
the information is missing, the hand¬
some chap is still instantly
recognisable.
All that has happened is that of the
two hundred lines of screen data, only
one hundred have been stored and the
other hundred just copied from the
line above. Simple, but effective. And
the machine code program to Create
and Display the data is very simple
indeed. The routine HALFSCREEN
will copy half the screen data to
address &400Q, so to save it after
compression just type: SAVE
" SM ALLSCR' \ b, &4OG0O, &2QOO
To reconstruct, a screen image, the
routine DRAWSCREEN should be cal¬
led after placing some suitable data at
address &4000.
There are only a few T tricky bits in
the program so far. You must
remember to switch the upper ROM
off if you are looking at the screen
memory' which occupies the area
underneath. It is also good manners to
switch this ROM on again after we
have played w r ith it. Once again, w r e
make the little Z8G instruction LDIR
to do all the work, LDIR must rate as
my favourite instruction of all time, it
performs the incredibly useful task of
copying memory from one address to
another, anci works thus:
Load DE with the address where
the data is to go,
Load HL with the address where
the data is already.
Load BC with the number of bytes
to be moved.
For example,
LD DE f &COOO
LD HL ,&4000
Ltl BC,&0005
LDIR
wq|] move five bytes from &4G0Q to
&c000
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Amstr&d User January 1S9Q
n Q11st
I
i Screen Compreswr for D^iVised Pictures
1 Lopyf iQht rt until-' John for Ams tr Computoi* User 1
; Routine*:
i
? HALFSCREEN
; a narni*l screen display *no store half of it from addrusfc
; S<4000 and onwards.
(
t DftAWSCREEN
; Take half i screen stored start ins at &400O and re-draw it,
? SVNTHSCREEN
i Take half i screen stop'ecf starting at MC00 and synthesize a
i full image from it.
prev_line t-qu .&bc29
nekt_Line equ ^bc2t
Up p e r _r Officef 1 eq u &D903
Upper__.rom_Oh equ Sib900
Top _of_sci'een equ iicOOO
StOP' , e_a4dres5 equ &4O0Q
prg St3000 i Star t Df code - must be before St4000
,HALFSCREEN
Cill Upper_roni_of f
Id h1,Top_of_screen
Id de > Stor#_address
1 cf b, 100
.loopl push hi:push be
Id be T 80
1 d i r
pop be
pop hi: call neNthliCall
djhz loopl
Cill Upper_rom_ q n
ret
iTurn off top RDM to make sure
|wt examine the screen RAM
[Top Of Screen Ram
[Start of storage
1 Half the 200 screen lines
iPreserve registers
ftlave 80 bytes
n e k t h 1
[Repeat for all lines
[Turn on Rom
DRflWSCREEN
Id de,Top_Of^screen
Id hi,Store address
Id b,99
loop2 push be1 push de
Id hc,S0lIdir
pop de: ciU n«Htde
push hi:push de
Id be,SO:1dir
pop de; pop his pop be
cal 1 nextde
djoa icop2
ret
|Top of Screen RAH
[Start of screen store
lPreserve registers
[Draw first line
[Draw it again, but down
[one screen 1 ire.
*SV NTHSCREEN
[Stage One - Draw every other line
Id de f Tqp_af_scr*en
Id hi,Store eddresa
Id b,99
;Tnp of Screen RAh
[Start of tcreerii store
» loop3
p-u i h tC: push Pe
1d be , BO:1di r
pap deipap be
1 Preserve register*
1Draw a screen line
Call nextde ? e * 1 t nesitde
djnz loap3
iMove down two lines
: Stage
Twq - M*k@ lap the dat# for
in-between lines
call Upper _rom_ci f f
s Turn off top RQM to auk «- sure
i we eKamine th# ac<’eeri RAM
Id de,To[>_Of_Screen
call n e :: t d e
id b,9B
5 Move one line down from top
Id c t 80
After playing around with this pro¬
gram three more ideas presented
themselves to me. The first was why
not do the same with the horizontal
resolution, with a result that 4k is
needed for each picture? This tech¬
nique results in a definite "de-rezzed"
look, but for a quarter of the memory
this trade-off will sometimes be
worthwhile. The program is left to you
as an exercise, because it is really not
all that difficult to write.
The second idea was to combine
conventional data compression tech¬
niques with the special halved and
quartered images. Potentially this
means the pictures could now take 4K
and 2K to store. Again, Run Length
Compression is something I've written
dozens of programs about, so have a
go yourself. Try looking through some
back issues of ACIL
The third idea was a way of creating
a slightly better quality picture from a
halved picture. Instead of just copying
the screen line above, why not synthe¬
size a new line, by taking elements
from the line above and the line
below? This seemed a fun little pro¬
gram to write, needing only a new
PRINTHALF routine. So I had a bath
to think about it, and wrote it.
It uses the magic V register, which
to all intents and purposes returns a
random number. We use this number
Amstrad User January 1930
,loopS push Pc
push de:pop hi
Id ^,r
bit 2 f a
Jr z * 1ookup
j r nz, lookdown
.back Id a, (hi); Id (de) ,a
inc h1sinc de
pop be
dec c;Id a,c
cp Of jr nz, 1oop5
pop de
call netftd€*:call nextde
;Sneak a random number
;Check one bit of it
; Draw in byte of pixels
5 hove to next byte in line
; Move down 2 lines
dec b:1d a,b
cp 0!jr nz, 1oop4
call Upper jr am _on
;Turn on Rom
ret
- lookup
cal 1 prev_line
jr back
*lookdown
call ne!-;t_line
jr back
,nexthl
call nextline
ret
*nextde
push hi
e a hi,de
c a 11 ne h th 1
e k h 1, d e
pop hi
ret
if you are wondering where I get my
digitised pictures from, the answer
lies in a little black box called VIDI
made by a company called Rombo -
famous for their ROM boxes. Appar¬
ently the pnee of this little electronic
gem is coming down, so make sure you
check it out. It takes a video image
from a video-recorder or camera, and
produces a practically instant image
on your CPC. Of course, I can’t men¬
tion Rombo without mentioning the
delightful Verona and Leslie. Well, I
could I suppose. But I won't.
Bye. •
Compressed 8K Image.
Compressed 16K Image.
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Amstrad User January 1990
Brought to book
SD Microsystems has
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paces.
G eneral Ledger 6128 is a com¬
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password for security. To help users
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provided on disc, although this is a
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FI FO and these are arranged in likely
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Page i
Learning to
landscape
Dean Cracknel!
delivers the final
batch of his three
part fractal bonanza.
H aving produced two programs
that calculate the fractal land¬
scape data, we now turn our
attention to how the data is to be
displayed. The original program used
isometric projection to produce a 3D
image, but this lacked perspective and
did not allow us to see the landscape
from different viewing positions. By
using these listings you will he able to
move around the landscape, and even
look underneath.
Although the projection uses ma¬
chine code, the program still takes a
couple of minutes to plot, so “flying
around the landscape” is the phrase I
was trying to avoid here.
Perspective and 3D Projection:
The machine code in Program 1 pre¬
tends that the CPC monitor screen is a
window through which you are look¬
ing at the fractal landscape. It does
this by projecting the landscape onto
that window.
To illustrate this, look out of a
nearby window at. the scene on the
other side. Sunlight, reflected off the
scenery, passes through the glass and
enters your eye. Here lenses and light
sensitive cells pass the image on to the
brain where the most powerful image
processing program ever written
takes over and we 'see 5 the image. If
you draw the scene on the glass just as
you see it, then this is what the CPC is
trying to create on the monitor screen„
To achieve this we need to know
exactly what the image on the glass
would look like.
Figure (i) illustrates this: the tri¬
angle formed between the viewer, the
top of the object and the horizontal
lias the same proportions as the tri¬
angle formed by the viewer and the
image on the glass, but a different size.
This means that if we divide one of the
sides of the larger triangle by one of its
other sides, the resulting number will
be the same as the same ratio pro¬
duced by the smaller triangle, or to
put it more simply:
Height on glass _ Height of object
Distance to glass Distance to object
By quickly re-arranging this little
equation, it is possible to calculate the
height that the object will have on the
glass as long as we know all the other
numbers, which we do:
Hobject
Hglass = Dglass x
Dobject
This simplified form lacks polish,
such as scaling and an offset for the
height of the viewer above the ground
(his elevation), fully expanded the
formula becomes:
Eleva¬
tion -
Hobject
Hglass = Hscale x Dglass x _
Dobject
Normally, the distance from the
viewer to the glass will be fixed, so this
can be incorporated into the Hscale’
constant. Having considered the pro¬
jection of the height of the object, the
width is treated in the same way and
produces a similar equation:
Xglass — Xscale x Dglass x
Xposi-
tion -
Xobject
Dobject
As these two equations are similar,
they can be combined into a general
Page 60
Amstrad User January 1930
1C50 ' VI . 1 Release Issue [90]
1290 GOSUB 3220 * set m/code data [76]
1350 yoff={ymax+8)\16; yoff=ystart+ yoff*ele v\ 16: GOSUB 3220 ' initialise a/codo
data [ 4 A ]
1410 IF redraw THEN IF drawit THEN GOSUB 2940 ELSE GOSUB 3140 [F6]
2C20 IF no= true THEN LOAD ,f f ra^code . bin" , &9 100 [FE]
2220 p = 0: ptop-6: pmax=ptop+l [30]
2290 ON p GOSUB 2350,2450,2520,2700.2760,2640: p = p+i [9F]
2530 1 [A6]
2690 1 Sub 9,5: Disc Saving [A9]
2 700 IF i $ =" f" THEN frm=(frm+l) MOD 10 000: p:pmax [81]
2710 IF’ iS = ' h F" THEN f rin= [ f rm + 9 9) MOD 100: p-pmax [88]
2720 IF i =2 24 THEN SAVE rr f s " 4 RIGHTS (STR$ (frm+10C0C} ,4 ) + Hi . scr" , b,&C000 ,&4 000 : frtn
-frm+1: p:pmax [SB]
2730 RETURN [73]
274C * [9C]
2750 ' Sub 9.8: change colours [9F]
2760 IF i$=":" THEN p=pnmx: IF back THEN backc“(backc+1) MOD 16 ELSE skyc={skyc+
1) MOD 16 [E4] ^
2770 IF i$="*" THEN p~pmax: IF back THEN backc:(backc+15) MOD 16 ELSE skyc-[skye
+15} MOD 16 [6C]
2780 IF = THEN p = pmax: IF back THEN horizone = fhorizonc +1) MOD 16 ELSE seac =
(seac +1 } MOD 16 [6A]
2790 IF i $ = r| + " THEN p = pmas: IF back THEN hor i zone = ( ho r i zonc + 15 } MOD 16 ELSE seac
-(seac+15) MOD 16 [32]
2800
281C
2320
283C
£840
285C
2860
11 + 1 }
2870
2880
2890
2900
2910
2920
2930
294 0
2950
2960
2970
2 980
2990
3000
3010
3020
3030
3040
3050
3060
3070
3080
3090
3100
3110
3120
3130
314 0
3 150
3160
3170
3180
3190
3200
3 210
3220
3230
IF p=pmax THEN redraw “true [96]
RETURN [6F]
' [981
1 Sub 9.4: flag changes I 9B]
IF = THEN showsea= {showsea+1} MOD 3: p = pmax I 9B J
IF it= ,< b'' THEN showsea- (showsea + 2) MOD 3: p = prmx [ C5 j
IF ifc="W" THEN pfi11 = ( pf i11 + 2) MOD 3: p:pmax ELSE IF iS="w" THEN pfill = {pfi
MOD 3: p-pmax [34]
IF j$ = ‘'C F ' THEN contor - NOT ccmtor: p=pmax [7B]
IF j S = ’ r 0 4r THEN back = NOT back: p=pmax: redraw:true [56]
IF j£=CHR${13} THEN drawit=NGT drawit: radraw=true: p=pmax [13]
IF p=pjn&x AND drawit THEN redraw = true [D6]
RETURN [71]
* I 9 A ]
' Sub 10: plot shape [9D3
GOSUB 3320 ’ plot horizon [83]
\PLOT.LAND.yposn,base [B4]
RETURN [801
’ [ A9 ]
1 Sub 11: project x-y [AC]
ky=y“yposn: ks=SGN{ky): ky=ABS(ky) [IE]
IF ky = 0 THEN ky=lE“38 [FF]
zx“ xof f + [xsca1e *( x-xposn) )/ky [ C9 ]
zy=yoff+{yscale*(i-elev)}/ky [21]
RETURN [66]
f [8F]
1 Sub 12: draw corners [92]
x~ 0: y = st: GOSUB 2990
y = 64: GOSUB 2990
y=64: GOSUB 2990
y=st: GOSUB 2990
x= 0
x = 64
x*64
y(C)-zy [BE]
y ( 1} = z y [ F 4 ]
yf 2) £ zy [14]
y(3 ) [76]
x(0):zx
X(1}=zx
x(2 ) =zx
x{3)= zx
! DRAW . POLY , y ( 0 ) , x ■( C } p y (1 } . x ( 1 ) . y ( 2 ) , x ( 2 ) , y ( 3 ) , x ( 3 ) [DA 3
RETURN [62]
' [SB]
’ Sub 13: plot frame [8E]
GOSUB 3320: IF yposn < 0 THEN st = 0 ELSE s t =yposn~1 [GE]
k 0 = 0 : kl=sealevel: k 2 = 2 5 5 : xsizo=size: yeizo=size-st+l [39]
!GPEN.0:
!GPEN,3:
MOVE 0,0
MOVE 0,0
MOVE 0,0
z = 0 :
z=sealevel: !
z = 25 5: !OPEN,15
RETURN [7 A]
’ [87]
1 Sub 14: Set m/code data [8A]
3 ELEVATION,elev [99]
j X,POSN,xposn: f Y.POSN,yposn
COSUB 3060 [EE]
GOSUB 3 06 0 [A4 j
COSUB 3 060 [A 2]
E 3 F ]
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3240
!X.OFFSET,xoff: !Y.OFFSET,yoff [D8j
3250
!X.SCALE.xscale: !¥.SCALE,yscale [EAI
3260
* SEA * FLAG,s huwsea [CE]
3270
!CONTOR.FLAG,con tor [3D]
3280
!WIRE.FLAG,pfill [CC]
3290
RETURN [7C]
3300
' [091
3310
Sub 15: draw sea/horiaon [SC]
3 3 20
ORIGIN 0 , xstar t , xend , yend . ystart [D4]
3330
fGPAPER,skyc; CLG: ysea=yoff: IF ysea>yend
THEN ysea=yend ELSE IF ysea<ysta
rt THEN ysea=ystart [04]
3340
IF back, THEN ! GPAPER , backc : \ GPEN , ho f itonc
CLG ; MOVE G.ysea: DRAWR G40.0;
GOTO
3390 [EA]
3350
ORIGIN 0,0,xs tar t,xond,ysea,y s tart [0A]
3360
I GPAPER,seac : CLG [26]
3370
ORIGIN 0,0.xstart,xend,yend,ystart [E3]
3 380
!GPAPER,0 [0E]
3390
RETURN [7E]
0
purpose equation that can be used for
both. The RSX command :PROJECT
handles this equation for both the X
and H projections. The X and H values
come directly from the Fractal data,
all the other values are held as varia¬
bles in the program and can be
changed at will.
There are limitations to this kind of
projection, in that you cannot project
the image when the distance from the
viewer to the object (Dobject) is zero.
as you will get a "Divide by zero" error.
In the real, real world this problem is
solved by projecting the image into a
curved surface, the back of your eye,
and then using the brain to compute
the true image.
The machine code loader of pro¬
gram 1 loads-up the second half of the
final machine code, adding a further
15 RSX’s to the existing 12. Save and
run this program, which will poke the
code into memory and save it.
The second listing* Program 2 ,
should be typed in as seen, without
changing the line numbers and saved
as < ‘part-2”.
Now you should have a complete
version of the full-blown Fractal Land¬
scape Generator, when you run the
program, the first landscape will be
calculated and displayed as a counter¬
map as before, but now T the image
display will contain a landscape of sea
and sky with three boxes drawn in
true perspective, these boxes
represent the lowest point, sealevel
and the highest point of any land¬
scape, using them as a guide, an idea
of where the final image will be can be
deduced, pressing [ENTER] or
[RETURN] will then draw’ the full
picture. From here on you can move,
around the landscape using the keys
already described or use the new r
functions added by the latest addi¬
tions, these new keys are as follows:
[0]: Switch On and Off Sea and
Sky background.
[:]: Changes the Sky/Back-
1000- ' m/code loader for f i 1 e : FRA- B . BIN [81]
1010 1 [84]
1020 1 by DEANCRACKNELL1988 [87]
103® ' [8A]
1040 MEMORY &.90FF [96]
1050 llen = &59®: strt=&9767: nm.E » ”FRA-B . BI N TP [ AS 3
1060 lsum=0: csum=0: Inum=3000: iis0 [IF]
1070 READ aS: amp$ =CHR5 [ 3 8) : PRINT ''Creating ” ;nmS;" [24]
1080 WHILE a$O tl ####” [83]
1090 FOR ai=l TO LEN(aS) STEP 2: PRINT CHR$fl92+(ai MOD 4)};CHR$(8); [76]
1100 aa=VAL(amp$+MIDS(aS,ai,2)): POKE strt+ii,aa: Isuni^lsum + aa: ii=iitl [8D]
1110 NEXT ai: GGSUR 2000 [80]
1120 READ aS [3F]
1130 WEND: PRINT " " [57]
1140 READ aS: cesum=VAL(amp$+aS) [AS]
1150 IF ccsunsOcsura THEN PRINT "ERROR in Final C/SUM" : END [72}
1160 PRINT "A^l Code correct, saving to disc" [A8]
1170 SAVE '*!"4nro$,b,strt,lien [67]
1180 END [3D]
£000 ' line checksum [82]
2010 READ q 3; 1 1 sum:VAL ( aiap$ + a$ ) [ BS ]
2020 IF 11 sum< >1sum THEN PRINT "C/SUM ERROR in LINE" ;Inum: END [D8J
£03® csum=(csum MOD &7000)4lsum: lnura= lnum-f 10: lsum = 0 [30]
2040 RETURN [68]
3000 DATA 3344£d50?26fGa65 t 2a4 [C9]
3010 DATA 6374696fee50524£,3Se [A8l
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ground colour,
[;]: Changes Sea/Horizon
colour.
The sequence of colours is
the same as the colour scale
on the right-hand edge of
the screen, using SHIFT,
the colours step backwards.
[ENTER |: Switch between Bos-frame
and Full Display, for speed,
always switch back to Box
mode before changing any¬
thing (it's quicker).
[ L]: Multiply Level by 2, LeveI is
the resolution of the projec¬
ted image, for speed use a
lower value, for detail use a
higher number, the maxi¬
mum resolution is 64, which
is the resolution of the con-
tor map.
[W]: Switch between: Wire¬
frame and Solid image. Wire
frame is at least 10 times
faster to plot, so use this to
adjust your viewing posi¬
tion t then switch to Solid
for your final image.
[COPY]: Save Projected Frame to
disc or tape as file J ‘SO-
123,SCR’\ where 123 is the
frame number. Tape users
should press RECORD and
PLAY before pressing
t+ COPY'\ as tape messages
are supressed.
[F]: Increase the Frame number
by 1 1 SHIFT 1 decreases the
number.
[C]: Switch between Cantor-
Image and Shaded Image
for the projected linage, in
contor mode, the colours
are the same as the contor
map, in shaded mode the
colours are chosen to
represent the effect of the
sun shining over your left
shoulder.
[B]: Switch between: Below
Sea: Don't Show Sea and
Show Sea, These determine
how the sea is represented,
Don't Show Sea and Show
Sea only affect how the
Wire-frame image is drawn
and look the same in Solid-
image.
To check that the program ran as
expected on a CPC464. I borrowed
one and found (to my surprise) that it
runs 1 r b faster on a CPC464 than it
does on my CPC6128 - does anyone
have copies of BASIC VI.0 ROM's to
spare? I hope you’ve all enjoyed this
series and may your fractals be fruit¬
ful. •
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THE ESS
com
up
the
bulletin
board
That shadowy figure
Gordon Bates
introduces you to the
world of the BBS and
a passport to endless
hours of phone fun.
T .his month, we're going to delve
into the world of private Bull¬
etin Board Systems, hut before
we do, 1 must correct a mistake that
crept into last month's masterpiece
(Lord knows how!) In the section on
the charges for using Micronet, the
impression was given that the system
is free to use between 6pm and mid¬
night. Sorry, folks, this isn't the case.
Just to put it straight, here's a little
table that explains it all:
6pm to Midnight: Ip per minute
Saturday ipm to Midnight, Sunday all
day, Midnight to 8am: all Micronet
pages are free, but Prestelpages are at
Ip per minute.
All other times: all Micronet and Pre¬
stel pages 7p per minute.
0K t now that that's out of the way,
let's look at the (usually) free Bulletin
Board Systems (BBSs) that seem to
be in every comer of the country.
They're normally very different from
the viewdata systems as exemplified
by Micronet and Prestel. Generally,
they're what's known as ‘scrolling'
systems. That is, instead of presenting
their information in nicely laid out
pages, one at a time, the information
that’s hurtling down your phone line
scrolls up the screen, much like a long
listing (but much, much slower!)
Other differences are in the 'proto¬
cols’ that they require.
Now, remember, in this column, we
don't go in for the black magic ap¬
proach, so it's time for a little expla¬
nation about these protocol thmgies.
When a modem talks to another
modem, each end needs to under¬
stand what the other is saying. So,
they establish a protocol (from the
diplomatic term) to accomplish this.
First, there may be a START BIT, or
perhaps two* Then, there wdll be the
DATA BITS - or the portion of the
message that actually contains the
character being sent* This will be
either 7 or 8 bits. Then, optionally,
there may be PARITY BITS - they're a
fairly redundant method of error
checking, and needn't concern us too
much here. Finally, there may be
STOP BITS, which serve to tell the
remote modem computer that that
particular character is finished (Ger-
raway, they all cried - maybe that's
why they're called stop bit si)
In this country, you're only ever
likely to come across two settings for
all of these strange bits. They are a)
No start bits, 7 data bits, even parity,
and one stop bit. - usually shown as
7B1 - this is also sometimes called the
Prestel setting, since that's what Pre¬
stel (and Telecom Gold) use, and b)
No start bits, 8 data bits, No parity, and
one stop bit - usually shown as 8N1 -
which is what the majority of private
BBSs use.
Now that we've discussed this, for¬
get it. all - it's really not that important.
Mostly, all you need to do is look at a
listing of bulletin board phone num¬
bers (there are leads, and I've ap¬
pended a few here) and the settings
will be shown. All you need to do is set
your software to the right setting
before you go online. So, as you can
see, it doesn't really matter whether
or not you understand it, as long as
you remember to set the right one,
OK, so now you've sorted out a
likely looking BBS, preferably local to
you at first (we don't want the editor's
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AmstratiUser January 1990
BT shares growing too fast, now do
we?), and you've booted up your
comma package. You've made .sure
that you’ve set the right protocol
settings, and you’re ready to go. Dial
the number, and, BT willing, youTJ
shortly hear your modem legging onto
the system. If it's a popular one, then
you might hear the engaged tone
rather a lot before you get even this
far. This is a good sign. It means that
the BBS is very popular, and there¬
fore, must be very good.
So keep on keeping on, and even¬
tually you'll get on. Depending what
BBS software the sysop (that's comms
speak for system operator, or the
person who actually runs the thing) is
using, you eould be met with any
number of welcome screens, but a few
things will be common to most of
them.
Firstly, you'll nearly alw T ays see the
name of the board up there in lights -
w T hich is as good a check as you'll get
that you've got the right number.
Next, you may be asked whether or
not your terminal is capable of ANSI
GRAPHICS. Sorry, friends, but I’m
afraid that, thus far, the good ol 1 CPC
isn't capable of displaying these de¬
lights. So, you'll have to answer NO!
Once that's out of the way t you're
going to be asked for your name, and
then a password. Re warned, most
sysops don’t allow nicknames, aliases,
or suchlike, but need your real Chris-
tian name and surname. Your pass¬
word is up to you, but, it’s probably
better that you don't use the password
you use on Prestel, or any other
on-line sendee that you pay for.
Pick something that you can
remember, but w r hich no-one else will
be able to guess. I use three passwords
for private BBSs, and keep another
ten or so for the pay-off sendees I use.
They are mostly a jumble of letters
and numbers, with the odd bit of
punctuation throwm in for good
measure, and don't mean anything
much. The beauty is, though, that I can
remember them. Also, I change ail my
passwords at least once every three
months, and more regularly on a ser¬
vice for which I pay. I’d advise you to
get into that habit, even if you don't
pay - it'll pay dividends,
OK, once you've got past the name
and password stage, you may be asked
to fill in a questionnaire as a new r user.
so the sysop can validate you. All this
means is that you will maybe have a 20
minute time limit on your first visit,
but once you're validated, your limit
may be limitless, if you see w T hat i
mean. It varies from BBS to BBS,
normally defaulting to around the tw r o
hour per day mark.
With full validation comes full privi¬
leges, which means that you can both
upload and download software
(please don’t forget to upload some¬
thing if you've dow r nloaded a proggie -
it's only courteous), and also visit
areas of the BBS that you may not
have been able to see the first time
you logged on. Anyway, tills is your
first time on, so let's not gel carried
away.
You'll normally be presented w r ith
some kind of main menu, and one of
the entries wall be marked 'messages’
or something similar. This is the area
to go and have a look at. You’ll be able
to read messages left by other users,
and, if you feel brave enough, you'll
probably be allowed to leave one or
two yourself. Please do have a go, and
either ask a question, or answer one. If
you don't, then no-one will write to
you, and the w T hole point of being
online goes up in smoke.
OK, find your w r ay back to the main
menu, and have a look round the
board. Check out the download areas,
the special interest groups, and any¬
thing else the board contains. Just a
peek, mind, nothing too strenuous,
'cos now r you’re going to log off. Find
your way back to the main menu, and
you'll see an option marked GOOD¬
BYE, or LOG-OFF, or similar. Select
this one, and the chances are that
you'll be asked to comfirm your
choice. Hit T', and next, you’ll be
asked if you w r ould like to leave a
message for the sysop. Again, hit T,
'cos you do.
Don't argue, yes you do! If you like
what you've seen on his system, leave
a message saying so, and ask if you can
be upgraded to full access privileges.
The sysop will be so pleased that he’ll
grant you them. If you aren’t that
impressed with the system, just thank
him for the use of the board for the
time you’ve been on, and say that you
probably won’t be. back - but do it
nicely. Remember, the BBS you’ve
just been on is someone’s hobby, and
has probably cost him plenty of dosh
and bags of time - he'll be proud of it,
so don't be hurtful
And that’s about it, really, there’s
nothing to it. Any of you who have
already been
through this pro¬
cess will probably
be bored sick by
now, but I make
absolutely no
apology for that*
Everyone has to
start somewhere,
and a local BBS is
as good a place as
any. Tve made this
article as easy as
possible to follow,
and as com¬
prehensive as
space will allow,
purely because I’d
like to see lots
more people using
their CPCs to get
online - it’s a great
way to use a
smashing poster,
and can be very
cheap entertain¬
ment,
Over the next
few r weeks 1 will be
printing lists of
BBSs you can con¬
tact for you to cut
out and keep. •
Modem living - the V22 BIS from Dataflex.
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